Judge0 up to 1.13.0 symlink

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A vulnerability has been found in Judge0 up to 1.13.0 and classified as critical. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to symlink. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-28189. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in Judge0 up to 1.13.0 and classified as very critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a symlink vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-61. The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Judge0 is an open-source online code execution system. The application uses the UNIX chown command on an untrusted file within the sandbox. An attacker can abuse this by creating a symbolic link (symlink) to a file outside the sandbox, allowing the attacker to run chown on arbitrary files outside of the sandbox. This vulnerability is not impactful on it's own, but it can be used to bypass the patch for CVE-2024-28185 and obtain a complete sandbox escape. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.13.1.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-28189 since 03/06/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/21/2024).

The exploit is available at packetstormsecurity.com. It is declared as highly functional.

Upgrading to version 1.13.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Judge0

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13.0

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/judge0/judge0/

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