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Gentoo: GLSA-202303-05 Normal: Flask Security Vulnerability Alert

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2008
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In January 2008, Gentoo issued GLSA-200801-11 regarding a serious vulnerability in CherryPy, allowing unauthorized file access due to inadequate input validation
CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers to read and write arbitrary files.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: CherryPy: Directory traversal vulnerability Date: January 27, 2008 Bugs: #204829 ID: 200801-11

Synopsis ======= CherryPy is vulnerable to a directory traversal that could allow attackers to read and write arbitrary files.
Background ========= CherryPy is a Python-based, object-oriented web development framework.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-python/cherrypy < 3.0.2-r1 *>= 2.2.1-r2 >= 3.0.2-r1
========== CherryPy does not sanitize the session id, provided as a cookie value, in the FileSe...

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