A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in aerouk imageserve. Affected is an unknown function of the file public/viewer.php of the component File Handler. The manipulation of the argument filelocation leads to path traversal. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is bd23c784f0e5cb12f66d15c100248449f87d72e2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217056.
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.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://vuldb.com/?id.217056 | third party advisory vdb entry technical description |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217056 | signature third party advisory permissions required |
| https://github.com/aerouk/imageserve/pull/27 | patch exploit third party advisory issue tracking |
| https://github.com/aerouk/imageserve/commit/bd23c784f0e5cb12f66d15c100248449f87d72e2 | third party advisory patch |