CVE-2008-0252

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _get_file_path function in (1) lib/sessions.py in CherryPy 3.0.x up to 3.0.2, (2) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.1, and (3) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.x allows remote attackers to create or delete arbitrary files, and possibly read and write portions of arbitrary files, via a crafted session id in a cookie.

Affected products

Cherrypy: through 2.1.0; through 3.0.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28353
http://secunia.com/advisories/28354
http://secunia.com/advisories/28611
http://secunia.com/advisories/28620
http://secunia.com/advisories/28769
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-11.xml
http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1774
http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1775
http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1776
http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/744
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1481
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487001/100/0/threaded

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