Cherokee Web Server URI Traversal Arbitrary File Access

medium Nessus Plugin ID 15621

Language:

Synopsis

The remote web server is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running Cherokee - a fast and tiny web server.

The remote version of this software is vulnerable to directory traversal flaw when appending a '../' sequence to the web request.

Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds to listen port.

Remote attacker can then submit specially crafted web request to browse any file on the server with root privileges.

Solution

Upgrade to Cherokee 0.2.8 or newer as this reportedly fixes the issue.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 15621

File Name: cherokee_dir_traversal.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: remote

Family: Web Servers

Published: 11/4/2004

Updated: 6/12/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2001

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2001-1432

BID: 3772

CWE: 22

Detections

Analytics