Changing Information Technology IDExpert up to 2.8 Administrator Interface absolute path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Changing Information Technology IDExpert up to 2.8. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Administrator Interface. This manipulation causes absolute path traversal. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-10651. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Changing Information Technology IDExpert up to 2.8. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block of the component Administrator Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a absolute path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-36. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

IDExpert from CHANGING Information Technology does not properly validate a specific parameter in the administrator interface, allowing remote attackers with administrator privileges to exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary system files.

It is possible to read the advisory at twcert.org.tw. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-10651 since 11/01/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. 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.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Changing Information Technology

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• IDExpert

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• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8

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