Arbitrary File Write Affecting commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload package, versions [,1.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
12.67% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMMONSFILEUPLOAD-30080
  • published16 Jun 2013
  • disclosed16 Jun 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Jun 2013

CVE-2013-2186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write.

Details

The DiskFileItem class in Apache Commons FileUpload, as used in Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5.3.1; JBoss Portal 4.3 CP07, 5.2.2, and 6.0.0; and Red Hat JBoss Web Server 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a NULL byte in a file name in a serialized instance.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1