CVE-2008-1891
Estado: ModificadaMedia (5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 2.79%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 86
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-22
Referencias
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/webrickcgi-adv.txt
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29794
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30831
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31687
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:140
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/06/20/arbitrary-code-execution-vulnerabilities/
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1245/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41824
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00937.html
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