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Directory Traversal in Studio 42 elFinder

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 7, 2023

Package

composer studio-42/elfinder (Composer)

Affected versions

>= 2.1.12, <= 2.1.36

Patched versions

2.1.37

Description

Studio 42 elFinder before 2.1.37 has a directory traversal vulnerability in elFinder.class.php with the zipdl() function that can allow a remote attacker to download files accessible by the web server process and delete files owned by the account running the web server process. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-9109.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 28, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Jul 7, 2023
Last updated Jul 7, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.434%
(75th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-9110

GHSA ID

GHSA-44p8-c3wv-f28r

Source code

No known source code
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