DSpace dspace-jspui SubmissionController/FileUploadRequest path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in DSpace. This affects the function SubmissionController/FileUploadRequest of the component dspace-jspui. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2022-31194. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. It is best practice to apply a patch to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability has been found in DSpace (affected version not known) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function SubmissionController/FileUploadRequest of the component dspace-jspui. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

DSpace open source software is a repository application which provides durable access to digital resources. dspace-jspui is a UI component for DSpace. The JSPUI resumable upload implementations in SubmissionController and FileUploadRequest are vulnerable to multiple path traversal attacks, allowing an attacker to create files/directories anywhere on the server writable by the Tomcat/DSpace user, by modifying some request parameters during submission. This path traversal can only be executed by a user with special privileges (submitter rights). This vulnerability only impacts the JSPUI. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds. However, this vulnerability cannot be exploited by an anonymous user or a basic user. The user must first have submitter privileges to at least one Collection and be able to determine how to modify the request parameters to exploit the vulnerability.

The weakness was presented 08/02/2022 as GHSA-qp5m-c3m9-8q2p. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-31194 since 05/18/2022. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Applying the patch 7569c6374aefeafb996e202cf8d631020eda5f24 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• DSpace

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/

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