Information Exposure Affecting swisspol/gcdwebserver package, versions [,3.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SWISSPOLGCDWEBSERVER-2365453
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade swisspol/gcdwebserver to version 3.5.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. An issue was discovered in GCDWebServer before 3.5.3. The method moveItem in the GCDWebUploader class checks the FileExtension of newAbsolutePath but not oldAbsolutePath. By leveraging this vulnerability, an adversary can make an inaccessible file be available (the credential of the app, for instance).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1