CVE-2008-1145

high

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensitive file names, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via (1) "..%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences or (2) filenames that match patterns in the :NondisclosureName option.

References

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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00354.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00338.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41010

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490056/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489218/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489205/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0897.html

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/404515

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2163

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5215

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10937

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2338

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-1154

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1981/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0787

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019562

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28123

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2008/03/03/webrick-file-access-vulnerability/

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:142

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:141

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0123

http://secunia.com/advisories/32371

http://secunia.com/advisories/31687

http://secunia.com/advisories/30802

http://secunia.com/advisories/29536

http://secunia.com/advisories/29357

http://secunia.com/advisories/29232

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-03-04

Updated: 2026-06-16

Named Vulnerability: GHSA-f279-rf2r-m6m5

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.18163