CVE-2024-43797 - Path traversal

Routine

Remediate Within 6 Months

CVE Information|Basic Analysis|Framework Mapping|Web Framework Mapping|Compliance

CVE Information

Original CVE data

Published: September 2, 2024

Updated: September 3, 2024

audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. A non-admin user is not allowed to create libraries (or access only the ones they have permission to). However, the `LibraryController` is missing the check for admin user and thus allows a path traversal issue. Allowing non-admin users to write to any directory in the system can be seen as a form of path traversal. However, since it can be restricted to only admin permissions, fixing this is relatively simple and falls more into the realm of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). This issue has been addressed in release version 2.13.0. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

CWE:

CVSS v2-

CVSS v3-

References

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/security/advisories/GHSA-gg56-vj58-g5mc

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf-ghsa-gg56-vj58-g5mc/pull/1

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/blob/1c0d6e9c670ebb1b6f1e427a4c4d9250a7fb9b80/server/controllers/LibraryController.js

Affected Vendors

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOⁿengine

Path traversal

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOⁿengine

CVSS v25.5

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS v38.8

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

MITRE CWE Top 25

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

How the vulnerability maps against various cybersecurity frameworks

T1190 - Exploit Public-Facing Application

T1087 - Account Discovery

T1083 - File and Directory Discovery

T1005 - Data from Local System

Compliance Impact

How the submited vulnerability affects compliance

PCI DSS v3.2.1-6.5.8 - Improper Access Control

Web Application Security Frameworks

Applicable if the issue likely affects a web application