CVE-2007-6612

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in DirHandler (lib/mongrel/handlers.rb) in Mongrel 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an HTTP request containing double-encoded sequences (".%252e").

Affected products

Mongrel: 1.0.4, 1.1.1, 1.1.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/news.html
http://osvdb.org/39866
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004733.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004736.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004742.html
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004743.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28323
http://secunia.com/advisories/30430
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27133
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

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