Contao CMS up to 4.13.48 File Selector Widget path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Contao CMS up to 4.13.48. Affected is an unknown function of the component File Selector Widget. Executing a manipulation can lead to path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-45604. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Contao CMS up to 4.13.48. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component File Selector Widget. 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. CVE summarizes:

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In affected versions authenticated users in the back end can list files outside the document root in the file selector widget. Users are advised to update to Contao 4.13.49. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-45604 since 09/02/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 4.13.49 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Contao

Name

• CMS

Version

• 4.13.0
• 4.13.1
• 4.13.2
• 4.13.3
• 4.13.4
• 4.13.5
• 4.13.6
• 4.13.7
• 4.13.8
• 4.13.9
• 4.13.10
• 4.13.11
• 4.13.12
• 4.13.13
• 4.13.14
• 4.13.15
• 4.13.16
• 4.13.17
• 4.13.18
• 4.13.19
• 4.13.20
• 4.13.21
• 4.13.22
• 4.13.23
• 4.13.24
• 4.13.25
• 4.13.26
• 4.13.27
• 4.13.28
• 4.13.29
• 4.13.30
• 4.13.31
• 4.13.32
• 4.13.33
• 4.13.34
• 4.13.35
• 4.13.36
• 4.13.37
• 4.13.38
• 4.13.39
• 4.13.40
• 4.13.41
• 4.13.42
• 4.13.43
• 4.13.44
• 4.13.45
• 4.13.46
• 4.13.47
• 4.13.48

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