FireGiant WiX Toolset up to 3.11.1 DTF Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll Archive File path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in FireGiant WiX Toolset up to 3.11.1. Impacted is an unknown function in the library Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll of the component DTF. Such manipulation with the input ../ as part of Archive File leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-16511. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in FireGiant WiX Toolset up to 3.11.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality in the library Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll of the component DTF. The manipulation with the input value ../ leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered in DTF in FireGiant WiX Toolset before 3.11.2. Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Cab.dll and Microsoft.Deployment.Compression.Zip.dll allow directory traversal during CAB or ZIP archive extraction, because the full name of an archive file (even with a ../ sequence) is concatenated with the destination path.

The weakness was shared 09/19/2019. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-16511 since 09/19/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. 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 3.11.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• FireGiant

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• WiX Toolset

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• 3.11.0
• 3.11.1

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