PYSEC-2008-3

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Import Source
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/cherrypy/PYSEC-2008-3.yaml
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/PYSEC-2008-3
Aliases
Published
2008-01-12T02:46:00Z
Modified
2026-06-10T17:00:43.536286545Z
Summary
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Details

Directory traversal vulnerability in the getfile_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.

References

Affected packages

PyPI / cherrypy

Package

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.1.1
Introduced
3.0
Fixed
3.0.2

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.0-final
2.0.0b
2.1.0-beta
2.1.0
0.*
0.10
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/cherrypy/PYSEC-2008-3.yaml"