froxlor up to 2.0.19 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in froxlor up to 2.0.19. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-3172. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in froxlor up to 2.0.19. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Path Traversal in GitHub repository froxlor/froxlor prior to 2.0.20.

The weakness was shared 06/09/2023. It is possible to read the advisory at huntr.dev. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-3172 since 06/09/2023. 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.

Upgrading to version 2.0.20 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch da810ea95393dfaec68a70e30b7c887c50563a7e is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-1804). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Name

• froxlor

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10
• 2.0.11
• 2.0.12
• 2.0.13
• 2.0.14
• 2.0.15
• 2.0.16
• 2.0.17
• 2.0.18
• 2.0.19

License

• open-source

Website

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

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