OpenRefine up to 3.8.2 translations-$LANG.json LANG path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in OpenRefine up to 3.8.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file translations-$LANG.json. Executing a manipulation of the argument LANG can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2024-49760. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in OpenRefine up to 3.8.2. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the file translations-$LANG.json. The manipulation of the argument LANG 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:

OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. The load-language command expects a `lang` parameter from which it constructs the path of the localization file to load, of the form `translations-$LANG.json`. But when doing so in versions prior to 3.8.3, it does not check that the resulting path is in the expected directory, which means that this command could be exploited to read other JSON files on the file system. Version 3.8.3 addresses this issue.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-49760 since 10/18/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

By approaching the search of inurl:translations-$LANG.json it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 215187 (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 24.10 : OpenRefine vulnerabilities (USN-7260-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 3.8.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 24d084052dc55426fe460f2a17524fd18d28b20c 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (215187). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• OpenRefine

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• 3.8.0
• 3.8.1
• 3.8.2

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• open-source

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

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