PT-2008-1971 · Miniweb · Miniweb Http Server

Hamid Ebadi · Published 2008-01-17 · Updated 2017-09-29 · CVE-2008-0338

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MiniWeb HTTP Server version 0.8.19

Description The issue allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files and list arbitrary directories via a (1) .%2e (partially encoded dot dot) or (2) %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in the URI, due to a directory traversal vulnerability in the mwGetLocalFileName function in http.c.

Recommendations For MiniWeb HTTP Server version 0.8.19, consider restricting access to sensitive files and directories until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using the mwGetLocalFileName function with unvalidated input from the URI.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0338

Affected Products

Miniweb Http Server

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/4923 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0338 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28512 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39713 · Note
• http://bugtraq.ir/adv/miniweb_english.pdf · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0176 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/27319 · Note