CVE-2007-5685: Serverkit Shttp

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The safe_path function in shttp before 0.0.5 allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read files via a combination of ".." and sub-directory specifiers that resolve to a pathname that is at or below the same level as the web document root, but in a different part of the directory tree.

Affected products

• Serverkit Shttp: up to and including 0.0.4

Published 2007-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.