Gurux GXDLMS Director up to 8.5.1905.1301 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Gurux GXDLMS Director up to 8.5.1905.1301 and classified as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-8810. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Gurux GXDLMS Director up to 8.5.1905.1301. Affected by this issue is 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 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 Gurux GXDLMS Director through 8.5.1905.1301. When downloading OBIS codes, it does not verify that the downloaded files are actual OBIS codes and doesn't check for path traversal. This allows the attacker exploiting CVE-2020-8809 to send executable files and place them in an autorun directory, or to place DLLs inside the existing GXDLMS Director installation (run on next execution of GXDLMS Director). This can be used to achieve code execution even if the user doesn't have any add-ins installed.

The weakness was presented 02/25/2020. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-8810 since 02/07/2020. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Gurux

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• GXDLMS Director

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• 8.5.1905.1301

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