A vulnerability has been found in sviehb jefferson up to 0.3 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the file src/scripts/jefferson. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product 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 product 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was published 01/11/2023 as 36. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-4885. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 0.4 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 53b3f2fc34af0bb32afbcee29d18213e61471d87 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. The advisory contains the following remark:

Fix path traversal security vulnerability by canonicalizing path names of every inodes and discarding inodes with a path pointing outside of the extraction directory.

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