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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.15622
Category:Gain a shell remotely
Title:Cherokee remote command execution
Summary:The remote version of Cherokee is vulnerable to remote; command execution due to a lack of web requests sanitization, especially shell metacharacters.;; Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds; to listen port.
Description:Summary:
The remote version of Cherokee is vulnerable to remote
command execution due to a lack of web requests sanitization, especially shell metacharacters.

Additionally, this version fails to drop root privileges after it binds
to listen port.

Vulnerability Impact:
A remote attacker may submit a specially crafted web request to
execute arbitrary command on the server with root privileges.

Solution:
Upgrade to Cherokee 0.2.7 or newer.

CVSS Score:
7.5

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2001-1433
BugTraq ID: 3771
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3771
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#245795
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245795
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2001-q4/0085.html
XForce ISS Database: cherokee-http-insecure-privileges(7797)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7797
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak

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