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SCA: security update for mongrel (GHSA-m7r6-43v2-49vf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433811

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Directory traversal vulnerability in DirHandler (lib/mongrel/handlers.rb) in Mongrel 1.0.4 and 1.1.x
 before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an HTTP request containing double-encoded
 sequences (".%252e"). (CVE-2007-6612)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7r6-43v2-49vf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 433811

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 1/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-6612

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6612

BID: 27133

cwe: CWE-22