CVE-2008-1145: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 27.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 7 only; version 8 only
• Ruby-Lang Webrick: affected versions not specified

Published 2008-03-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.