Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11/4 /locales/resources.json lng/ns path traversal

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11/4. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /locales/resources.json. The manipulation of the argument lng/ns results in path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2024-7631. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11/4. It has been classified as critical. Affected is some unknown processing of the file /locales/resources.json. The manipulation of the argument lng/ns with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in the OpenShift Console, an endpoint for plugins to serve resources in multiple languages: /locales/resources.json. This endpoint's lng and ns parameters are used to construct a filepath in pkg/plugins/handlers unsafely.go#L112 Because of this unsafe filepath construction, an authenticated user can manipulate the path to retrieve any JSON files on the console's pod by using sequences of ../ and valid directory paths.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-7631 since 08/08/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/24/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

By approaching the search of inurl:locales/resources.json it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-6761). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Red Hat

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• OpenShift Container Platform

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• 3.11
• 4

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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