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SCA: security update for cherrypy (GHSA-76x8-gg39-5jjg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434285

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2008-0252)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-76x8-gg39-5jjg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 434285

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0252

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/27/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0252

BID: 27181

cwe: CWE-22