Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller up to 1.51.x path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller up to 1.51.x. This issue affects some unknown processing. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2018-1266. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller up to 1.51.x (Cloud Software). This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller, versions prior to 1.52.0, contains information disclosure and path traversal vulnerabilities. An authenticated malicious user can predict the location of application blobs and leverage path traversal to create a malicious application that has the ability to overwrite arbitrary files on the Cloud Controller instance.

The bug was discovered 03/26/2018. The weakness was shared 03/27/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at cloudfoundry.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-1266 since 12/06/2017. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. A authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 1.52.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Cloud Software

Name

• Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43
• 1.44
• 1.45
• 1.46
• 1.47
• 1.48
• 1.49
• 1.50
• 1.51

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