CVE-2008-5919

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in rss.php in WebSVN 2.0 and earlier, when magic_quotes_gpc is disabled, allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the rev parameter.

Affected products

Tigris Websvn: through 2.0; 1.00, 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 (+13)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32338
http://secunia.com/advisories/34191
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4928
http://websvn.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=179
http://websvn.tigris.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=2218
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-20.xml
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00132-10202008
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31891
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46050
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6822
http://secunia.com/advisories/32338
http://secunia.com/advisories/34191

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