CVE-2008-1891

Ruby <1.8.4-1.9.0-2 - Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2, when using NTFS or FAT filesystems, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary CGI files via a trailing (1) + (plus), (2) %2b (encoded plus), (3) . (dot), (4) %2e (encoded dot), or (5) %20 (encoded space) character in the URI, possibly related to the WEBrick::HTTPServlet::FileHandler and WEBrick::HTTPServer.new functionality and the :DocumentRoot option.

References (11)

Core 11
Core References
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/29794
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references

Scores

EPSS 0.0281
EPSS Percentile 84.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
ruby-lang/ruby 1.8.5
ruby-lang/ruby 1.8.6
ruby-lang/ruby < 1.9.0
Published Apr 18, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026