CVE-2024-46987: high-severity vulnerability in owen2345 camaleon-cms
Arbitrary path traversal in Camaleon CMS
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63Vexday Risk Score
Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.7epss 15%
from disclosure to weapon501 days
Published on NVDSep 18
1st PoC+501d
metasploitAug 8
Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails. A path traversal vulnerability accessible via MediaController's download_private_file method allows authenticated users to download any file on the web server Camaleon CMS is running on (depending on the file permissions). This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.8.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
owen2345 · camaleon-cmspublic PoCs found — 11
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References
https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injectionhttps://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-cp65-5m9r-vc2chttps://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversalhttps://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-182_GHSL-2024-186_Camaleon_CMShttps://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1exwtdm/camaleon_cms_281_has_been_released