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PYSEC-2008-3

Quick fix

PYSEC-2008-3 — cherrypy: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'cherrypy>=2.1.1'

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/cherrypy
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.1.1
Fixpip install --upgrade 'cherrypy>=2.1.1'

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