Path Traversal in admin/assetmanager/assetmanager.php ... · CVE-2020-10459 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Path Traversal in admin/assetmanager/assetmanager.php ...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Path Traversal in admin/assetmanager/assetmanager.php (vulnerable function saved in admin/assetmanager/functions.php) in Chadha PHPKB Standard Multi-Language 9 allows attackers to list the files that are stored on the webserver using a dot-dot-slash sequence (../) via the POST parameter inpCurrFolder.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Mar 12, 2020

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022

Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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. Learn more on MITRE.