iBotPeaches Apktool up to 2.9.1 path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in iBotPeaches Apktool up to 2.9.1. Affected is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-21633. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in iBotPeaches Apktool up to 2.9.1. Affected by this issue is an unknown part. 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:

Apktool is a tool for reverse engineering Android APK files. In versions 2.9.1 and prior, Apktool infers resource files' output path according to their resource names which can be manipulated by attacker to place files at desired location on the system Apktool runs on. Affected environments are those in which an attacker may write/overwrite any file that user has write access, and either user name is known or cwd is under user folder. Commit d348c43b24a9de350ff6e5bd610545a10c1fc712 contains a patch for this issue.

The weakness was shared 01/03/2024 as GHSA-2hqv-2xv4-5h5w. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-21633 since 12/29/2023. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Applying the patch d348c43b24a9de350ff6e5bd610545a10c1fc712 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• iBotPeaches

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• Apktool

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• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/

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