Vulnerability Intelligence Report
MPXJ has a Potential Path Traversal Vulnerability
CVE-2024-49771
MPXJ is an open source library to read and write project plans from a variety of file formats and databases. The patch for the historical vulnerability CVE-2020-35460 in MPXJ is incomplete as there is still a possibility that a malicious path could be constructed which would not be picked up by the original fix and allow files to be written to arbitrary locations. The issue is addressed in MPXJ version 13.5.1.
No Active Exploit Signals
CVSS Base Score
5.3
MEDIUM
Exploitability:3.9
Impact Score:1.5
EPSS Probability:0.46%
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Attack Surface
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Authentication
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Weaponization
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SSVC Action
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Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-22 ↗CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Affected Products & Versions
| Vendor | Product | Affected Versions |
|---|---|---|
| joniles | mpxj | >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1 (affected) |
References & Technical Advisories
No reference links found.
Threat Intelligence Signals
EPSS Score
0.464%
GitHub Advisory
Identity & Timeline
| Status | PUBLISHED |
| Assigning Authority | GitHub, Inc. · Vendor · USA |
| Reserved | 2024-10-18T13:43:23 |
| Published | 2024-10-28T16:57:43 |
| Last Updated | 2024-10-29T13:37:18 |
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