Bug 816876 (CVE-2021-40978)

Summary:	dev-python/mkdocs: directory traversal (CVE-2021-40978)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	John Helmert III <ajak>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	nowa
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://github.com/nisdn/CVE-2021-40978
Whiteboard:	B4 [ebuild]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description John Helmert III archtester

2021-10-07 18:31:33 UTC

CVE-2021-40978:

The mkdocs 1.2.2 built-in dev-server allows directory traversal using the port 8000, enabling remote exploitation to obtain :sensitive information.

Seems unreported upstream, but I'm unconvinced they'll care about this anyway.

Comment 1 John Helmert III archtester

2021-10-08 17:25:34 UTC

Not a real security issue according to upstream.

https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/2601