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Gentoo GLSA-200605-16 Low Severity: CherryPy Directory Traversal

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2006
Scroller Gentoo
CherryPy running on Gentoo faces a directory traversal vulnerability that permits unauthorized file access; an update is essential to address potential security threats.
CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers to read arbitrary files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: May 30, 2006 Bugs: #134273 ID: 200605-16

Synopsis ======= CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers to read arbitrary files.
Background ========= CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-python/cherrypy < 2.1.1 >= 2.1.1
========== Ivo van der Wijk discovered that the "staticfilter" component of CherryPy fails to sanitize input correctly.
Impact ===== An attacker could exploit this flaw to obtain arbi...

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