CVE-2009-3902

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Cherokee Web Server 0.5.4 and earlier for Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a /\.. (slash backslash dot dot) in the URL.

Affected products

Cherokee Httpd: 0.5.4

References

http://freetexthost.com/ncyss3plli
http://osvdb.org/59588
http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/cherokee-web-server-054-directory.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37183
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36874
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3091
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54024
http://freetexthost.com/ncyss3plli
http://osvdb.org/59588
http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/cherokee-web-server-054-directory.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/37183
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36874

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