Craft CMS up to 4.12.4/5.4.5 path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Craft CMS up to 4.12.4/5.4.5 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-52291. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Craft CMS up to 4.12.4/5.4.5. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Craft is a content management system (CMS). A vulnerability in CraftCMS allows an attacker to bypass local file system validation by utilizing a double file:// scheme (e.g., file://file:////). This enables the attacker to specify sensitive folders as the file system, leading to potential file overwriting through malicious uploads, unauthorized access to sensitive files, and, under certain conditions, remote code execution (RCE) via Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) payloads. Note that this will only work if you have an authenticated administrator account with allowAdminChanges enabled. This is fixed in 5.4.6 and 4.12.5.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-52291 since 11/06/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 4.12.5 or 5.4.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Craft

Name

• CMS

Version

• 4.12.0
• 4.12.1
• 4.12.2
• 4.12.3
• 4.12.4
• 5.4.0
• 5.4.1
• 5.4.2
• 5.4.3
• 5.4.4
• 5.4.5

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• free

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