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GHSA-j945-c44v-97g6: MPXJ has a Potential Path Traversal Vulnerability

Impact

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.

Patches

The issue is addressed in MPXJ version 13.5.1

Workarounds

Do not pass zip files to MPXJ.

References

N/A

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  1. GitHub Advisory Database
  2. GitHub Reviewed
  3. CVE-2024-49771

MPXJ has a Potential Path Traversal Vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 28, 2024 in joniles/mpxj

Affected versions

>= 13.0.0, < 13.5.1

nuget net.sf.mpxj (NuGet)

nuget net.sf.mpxj-for-csharp (NuGet)

nuget net.sf.mpxj-for-vb (NuGet)

maven net.sf.mpxj:mpxj (Maven)

Impact

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.

Patches

The issue is addressed in MPXJ version 13.5.1

Workarounds

Do not pass zip files to MPXJ.

References

N/A

References

  • GHSA-j945-c44v-97g6
  • joniles/mpxj@8002802

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Oct 28, 2024

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