CVE-2008-1145

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensitive file names, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via (1) "..%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences or (2) filenames that match patterns in the :NondisclosureName option.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8
Ruby WEBrick: all versions

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/29232
http://secunia.com/advisories/29357
http://secunia.com/advisories/29536
http://secunia.com/advisories/30802
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
http://secunia.com/advisories/32371
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/404515

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