Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting github.com/karmada-io/karmada/operator/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils package, versions <1.12.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMKARMADAIOKARMADAOPERATORPKGKARMADACTLCMDINITUTILS-8602085
  • published5 Jan 2025
  • disclosed3 Jan 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2024-56514  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-29  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/karmada-io/karmada/operator/pkg/karmadactl/cmdinit/utils to version 1.12.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) via the CRDs archive extraction process due to improper input validation. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by supplying a malicious CRD file during the initialization of Karmada.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by manually inspecting the CRD files to check for sequences such as ../ that would alter file paths, to determine if they potentially include malicious files.

Details

It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

The following is an example of a zip archive with one benign file and one malicious file. Extracting the malicous file will result in traversing out of the target folder, ending up in /root/.ssh/ overwriting the authorized_keys file:


+2018-04-15 22:04:29 ..... 19 19 good.txt

+2018-04-15 22:04:42 ..... 20 20 ../../../../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys

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