GHSA-76x8-gg39-5jjg

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GHSA-76x8-gg39-5jjg

Summary: CherryPy Malicious cookies allow access to files outside the session directory

Details: 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.

References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0252, https://github.com/cherrypy/cherrypy/commit/37b856eba6f207231c691dae2e5b24e072f86664, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204829, https://github.com/cherrypy/cherrypy, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/cherrypy/PYSEC-2008-3.yaml, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2127, https://web.archive.org/web/20080129011723/http://secunia.com/advisories/28354, https://web.archive.org/web/20080312130713/http://secunia.com/advisories/28353, https://web.archive.org/web/20080328003510/http://secunia.com/advisories/28611, https://web.archive.org/web/20100122080212/http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0039, https://web.archive.org/web/20110513223620/http://secunia.com/advisories/28769, https://web.archive.org/web/20111224161644/http://secunia.com/advisories/28620, https://web.archive.org/web/20151108024505/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27181, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00240.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00297.html, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-11.xml, http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1774, http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1775, http://www.cherrypy.org/changeset/1776, http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/744, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1481