Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting typo3/cms-core package, versions >=10.0.0, <10.2.1>=9.0.0, <9.5.12>=8.0.0, <8.7.30


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-TYPO3CMSCORE-538237
  • published18 Dec 2019
  • disclosed17 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Dec 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade typo3/cms-core to version 10.2.1, 9.5.12, 8.7.30 or higher.

Overview

typo3/cms-core is a free open source enterprise content management system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip). Extraction of manually uploaded ZIP archives in Extension Manager is vulnerable to directory traversal. Admin privileges are required in order to exploit this vulnerability. Since TYPO3 v9 LTS, System Maintainer privileges are required as well.

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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