Directory Traversal Affecting apache-commons-io package, versions <2.6-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
10.55% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-APACHECOMMONSIO-2683396
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed20 Apr 2021

Introduced: 20 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-29425  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 apache-commons-io to version 2.6-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache-commons-io package and not the apache-commons-io package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Apache Commons IO before 2.7, When invoking the method FileNameUtils.normalize with an improper input string, like "//../foo", or "\..\foo", the result would be the same value, thus possibly providing access to files in the parent directory, but not further above (thus "limited" path traversal), if the calling code would use the result to construct a path value.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1