mbloch mapshaper up to 0.6.43 path traversal

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in mbloch mapshaper up to 0.6.43. Affected is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-1163. The attack is restricted to local execution. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in mbloch mapshaper up to 0.6.43. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown function. 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:

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitHub repository mbloch/mapshaper prior to 0.6.44.

The weakness was disclosed 02/13/2024 as 7437d903c0a87802c3751fc529d2de7098094c72. The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-1163 since 02/01/2024. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 0.6.44 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 7437d903c0a87802c3751fc529d2de7098094c72 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.

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Productinfo

Vendor

• mbloch

Name

• mapshaper

Version

• 0.6.0
• 0.6.1
• 0.6.2
• 0.6.3
• 0.6.4
• 0.6.5
• 0.6.6
• 0.6.7
• 0.6.8
• 0.6.9
• 0.6.10
• 0.6.11
• 0.6.12
• 0.6.13
• 0.6.14
• 0.6.15
• 0.6.16
• 0.6.17
• 0.6.18
• 0.6.19
• 0.6.20
• 0.6.21
• 0.6.22
• 0.6.23
• 0.6.24
• 0.6.25
• 0.6.26
• 0.6.27
• 0.6.28
• 0.6.29
• 0.6.30
• 0.6.31
• 0.6.32
• 0.6.33
• 0.6.34
• 0.6.35
• 0.6.36
• 0.6.37
• 0.6.38
• 0.6.39
• 0.6.40
• 0.6.41
• 0.6.42
• 0.6.43

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/mbloch/mapshaper/

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