CVE-2008-0338: Miniweb HTTP Server

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in the mwGetLocalFileName function in http.c in MiniWeb HTTP Server 0.8.19 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.

Affected products

• Miniweb HTTP Server Miniweb HTTP Server: version 0.8.19 only

Published 2008-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.