Google mesop up to 0.12.3 path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Google mesop up to 0.12.3. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes path traversal. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-45601. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Google mesop up to 0.12.3. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. 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. The summary by CVE is:

Mesop is a Python-based UI framework designed for rapid web apps development. A vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in Mesop that could potentially allow unauthorized access to files on the server hosting the Mesop application. The vulnerability was related to insufficient input validation in a specific endpoint. This could have allowed an attacker to access files not intended to be served. Users are strongly advised to update to the latest version of Mesop immediately. The latest version includes a fix for this vulnerability. At time of publication 0.12.4 is the most recently available version of Mesop.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-45601 since 09/02/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/18/2024). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.12.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 17fb769d6a91f0a8cbccfab18f64977b158a6a31 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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• Google

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• mesop

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• 0.12.0
• 0.12.1
• 0.12.2
• 0.12.3

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• free

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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/
• Product: https://github.com/google/mesop/

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