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TITLE:
Cherokee Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37183

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Cherokee, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

An input sanitation error within the handling of HTTP requests can be
exploited to display arbitrary files outside the web root directory
via traversal attacks of the form "/\../\../\".

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 0.5.4 on Windows XP. Other
versions may also be affected.

Note: This may only affect systems running Windows.

SOLUTION:
Filter malicious characters and character sequences using a proxy.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dr_IDE

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pocoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/10/cherokee-web-server-054-directory.html

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