Pydio Cells 2.0.4 Web Application input validation

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Pydio Cells 2.0.4. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Web Application. The manipulation leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-12847. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Pydio Cells 2.0.4. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Web Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Pydio Cells 2.0.4 web application offers an administrative console named “Cells Console� that is available to users with an administrator role. This console provides an administrator user with the possibility of changing several settings, including the application’s mailer configuration. It is possible to configure a few engines to be used by the mailer application to send emails. If the user selects the “sendmail� option as the default one, the web application offers to edit the full path where the sendmail binary is hosted. Since there is no restriction in place while editing this value, an attacker authenticated as an administrator user could force the web application into executing any arbitrary binary.

The weakness was shared 06/04/2020. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-12847 since 05/14/2020. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

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

The entries VDB-156182, VDB-156181 and VDB-156180 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Pydio

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• Cells

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• 2.0.4

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