Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package satellite-capsule:el8/python-aiohttp  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
22.66% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SATELLITECAPSULE-6209411
  • published30 Jan 2024
  • disclosed30 Jan 2024

Introduced: 30 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-23334  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream satellite-capsule:el8/python-aiohttp package and not the satellite-capsule:el8/python-aiohttp package as distributed by RHEL.

aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. When using aiohttp as a web server and configuring static routes, it is necessary to specify the root path for static files. Additionally, the option 'follow_symlinks' can be used to determine whether to follow symbolic links outside the static root directory. When 'follow_symlinks' is set to True, there is no validation to check if reading a file is within the root directory. This can lead to directory traversal vulnerabilities, resulting in unauthorized access to arbitrary files on the system, even when symlinks are not present. Disabling follow_symlinks and using a reverse proxy are encouraged mitigations. Version 3.9.2 fixes this issue.