FLIR AX8 up to 1.46.16 Symbolic Link File path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in FLIR AX8 up to 1.46.16. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Symbolic Link File Handler. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-51127. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in FLIR AX8 up to 1.46.16 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Symbolic Link File Handler. 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. CVE summarizes:

FLIR AX8 thermal sensor cameras up to and including 1.46.16 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to improper access restriction. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to obtain arbitrary sensitive file contents by uploading a specially crafted symbolic link file.

The weakness was published 01/10/2024. The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-51127 since 12/18/2023. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-55849). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• FLIR

Name

• AX8

Version

• 1.46.0
• 1.46.1
• 1.46.2
• 1.46.3
• 1.46.4
• 1.46.5
• 1.46.6
• 1.46.7
• 1.46.8
• 1.46.9
• 1.46.10
• 1.46.11
• 1.46.12
• 1.46.13
• 1.46.14
• 1.46.15
• 1.46.16

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