A vulnerability was found in CVS 1.10 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code. 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. The summary by CVE is:

CVS before 1.11 allows CVS clients to read arbitrary files via .. (dot dot) sequences in filenames via CVS client requests, a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0180.

The weakness was presented 06/01/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared at debian.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-0405 since 04/16/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12531 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.11 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15891), Vulnerability Center (SBV-4184) and Tenable (12531). See 21884 for similar entry.

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