CVE-2008-0338

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the mwGetLocalFileName function in http.c in MiniWeb HTTP Server 0.8.19 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list arbitrary directories via a (1) .%2e (partially encoded dot dot) or (2) %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in the URI.

Affected products

Miniweb Http Server: 0.8.19

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/28512
http://www.bugtraq.ir/adv/miniweb_english.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27319
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0176
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39713
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4923
http://secunia.com/advisories/28512
http://www.bugtraq.ir/adv/miniweb_english.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27319
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0176
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39713
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4923

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