Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-0252 to the following vulnerability: 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. References: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/487001/100/0/threaded http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1774 http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1775 http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1776 http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/744 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204829 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2127 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1481 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-11.xml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27181 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/0039 http://secunia.com/advisories/28354 http://secunia.com/advisories/28611 http://secunia.com/advisories/28620 http://secunia.com/advisories/28769 Fix: http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1775
Fedora fixed this already in bug 427665.