CVE-2008-1145 in ruby-lang webrick

LogPulse has a published detection rule for this CVE: it raises a notable when someone tries to exploit it.

What the vulnerability is

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensitive file names, allows remote attackers to access arbitrary files via (1) "..%5c" (encoded backslash) sequences or (2) filenames that match patterns in the :NondisclosureName option.

Affected software: ruby-lang webrick, fedoraproject fedora

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What LogPulse has for it

Source data: NIST NVD, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. LogPulse processes new CVEs every hour.

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