← Database

CVE-2008-0252

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2008-01-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the _get_file_path function in (1) lib/sessions.py in CherryPy 3.0.x up to 3.0.2, (2) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.1, and (3) filter/sessionfilter.py in CherryPy 2.x allows remote attackers to create or delete arbitrary files, and possibly read and write portions of arbitrary files, via a crafted session id in a cookie.

Affected Platforms

Cherrypy Cherrypy

Weakness Type

CWE-22

References