Avid NEXIS E-series prior 2025.5.1 on Linux/Windows path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Avid NEXIS E-series, NEXIS F-series, NEXIS PRO+ and System Director Appliance on Linux/Windows. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-26292. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Avid NEXIS E-series, NEXIS F-series, NEXIS PRO+ and System Director Appliance on Linux/Windows. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. 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. The summary by CVE is:

The Application is vulnerable to an authenticated Arbitrary File Deletion. This affects the Agent installed on Linux and Windows alike. As the application runs with highest privileges (root/NT_AUTHORITY SYSTEM) by default attackers may use the vulnerability to delete critical files. This issue affects Avid NEXIS E-series: before 2025.5.1; Avid NEXIS F-series: before 2025.5.1; Avid NEXIS PRO+: before 2025.5.1; System Director Appliance (SDA+): before 2025.5.1.

The weakness was released by DriveByte. It is possible to read the advisory at resources.avid.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-26292 since 02/16/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful 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.

Upgrading to version 2025.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-23563). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: NEXIS E-series/NEXIS F-series/NEXIS PRO+/System Director Appliance 2025.5.1

Timelineinfo

02/16/2024 CVE reserved
07/14/2025 +513 days Advisory disclosed
07/14/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
07/14/2025 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: resources.avid.com
Researcher: DriveByte
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-26292 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-26292
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-316331
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/14/2025 11:12
Updated: 07/14/2025 13:55
Changes: 07/14/2025 11:12 (67), 07/14/2025 11:37 (1), 07/14/2025 12:20 (4), 07/14/2025 13:55 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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