openhab/openhab-webui · Security
CometVisu Backend for openHAB has a path traversal vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-pcwp-26pw-j98w
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-42468
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
openHAB's CometVisuServlet is susceptible to an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability.
Local files on the server can be requested via HTTP GET on the CometVisuServlet.
This vulnerability was discovered with the help of CodeQL's Uncontrolled data used in path expression query.
Impact
This issue may lead to Information Disclosure.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-webui/security/advisories/GHSA-pcwp-26pw-j98w ↗
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-webui/commit/630e8525835c698cf58856aa43782d92b18087f2 ↗
- https://github.com/openhab/openhab-webui/blob/1c03c60f84388b9d7da0231df2d4ebb1e17d3fcf/bundles/org.openhab.ui.cometvisu/src/main/java/org/openhab/ui/cometvisu/internal/servlet/CometVisuServlet.java#L75 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42468 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pcwp-26pw-j98w ↗