Relative Path Traversal Affecting assemblyline-service-client package, versions [,4.6.1.dev138)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ASSEMBLYLINESERVICECLIENT-11023272
  • published27 Jul 2025
  • disclosed25 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-55013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-23  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade assemblyline-service-client to version 4.6.1.dev138 or higher.

Overview

assemblyline-service-client is an Assemblyline 4 - Service client

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal via the download_file function in the task_handler.py. An attacker can overwrite arbitrary files, corrupt system files, or potentially execute code by supplying a crafted SHA-256 value that includes path traversal sequences, causing the client to write files to unintended locations on disk.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1