A vulnerability in the APIs of HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Core could potentially expose sensitive information to unauthorized users. A successful exploitation could allow an attacker to iteratively navigate through the filesystem and ultimately download protected system files containing sensitive information.
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.