thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5 File Upload path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. It has been rated as critical. This impacts an unknown function of the component File Upload. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-29196. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in thorsten phpmyfaq 3.2.5. This issue affects an unknown function of the component File Upload. 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. The summary by CVE is:

phpMyFAQ is an open source FAQ web application for PHP 8.1+ and MySQL, PostgreSQL and other databases. There is a Path Traversal vulnerability in Attachments that allows attackers with admin rights to upload malicious files to other locations of the web root. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.6.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-29196 since 03/18/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. 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 3.2.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 7ae2559f079cd5fc9948b6fdfb87581f93840f62 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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• Content Management System

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• thorsten

Name

• phpmyfaq

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• 3.2.5

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ/

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