ZOO-Project Web Processing Service SourceFilename path traversal

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in ZOO-Project. Affected is an unknown function of the component Web Processing Service. Executing a manipulation of the argument SourceFilename can lead to path traversal. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-25284. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists. Applying a patch is advised to resolve this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in ZOO-Project (the affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Web Processing Service. The manipulation of the argument SourceFilename 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:

The ZOO-Project is an open source processing platform, released under MIT/X11 Licence. A vulnerability in ZOO-Project's WPS (Web Processing Service) implementation allows unauthorized access to files outside the intended directory through path traversal. Specifically, the Gdal_Translate service, when processing VRT (Virtual Format) files, does not properly validate file paths referenced in the VRTRasterBand element, allowing attackers to read arbitrary files on the system. The vulnerability exists because the service doesn't properly sanitize the SourceFilename parameter in VRT files, allowing relative path traversal sequences (../). When combined with VRT's raw data handling capabilities, this allows reading arbitrary files as raw binary data and converting them to TIFF format, effectively exposing their contents. This vulnerability is particularly severe because it allows attackers to read sensitive system files, potentially exposing configuration data, credentials, or other confidential information stored on the server. An unauthenticated attacker can read arbitrary files from the system through path traversal, potentially accessing sensitive information such as configuration files, credentials, or other confidential data stored on the server. The vulnerability requires no authentication and can be exploited remotely through the WPS service. This issue has been addressed in commit `5f155a8` and all users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-25284 since 02/06/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• Project Management Software

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• ZOO-Project

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/ZOO-Project/ZOO-Project/

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