A vulnerability was found in soerennb eXtplorer up to 2.1.12 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Directory Content Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was released 01/05/2023 as b8fcb888f4ff5e171c16797a4b075c6c6f50bf46. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-25097. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 2.1.13 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch b8fcb888f4ff5e171c16797a4b075c6c6f50bf46 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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