CVE-2007-6612

N/A Unknown

Published: January 03, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

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").

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/news.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://osvdb.org/39866

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004733.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004736.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004742.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-December/004743.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/28323

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/30430

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27133

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-150A.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1697

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//May/msg00001.html