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Absolute Path Traversal

CVE-2024-10651

Medium
4.9/10

Summary

IDExpert from CHANGING Information Technology does not properly validate a specific parameter in the administrator interface, allowing remote attackers with administrator privileges to exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary system files.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published