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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2836

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename that is marked for deletion at logout.

Products
hiki
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
0.8.7-1
CVEs
CVE-2007-2836
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 15:45 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2836

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Jul 2007, 19:30 UTC

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename that is marked for deletion at logout.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2836

hiki

Fixed versions: 0.8.7-1

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2836",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename that is marked for deletion at logout.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-2836",
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        },
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    "severity": "unknown",
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          ],
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            "name": "hiki",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/hiki?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:12"
          },
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          },
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-21T17:47:34.605630949Z",
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      ]
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 398316,
  "published_at": "2007-07-02T19:30:00+00:00"
}