Headline
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
- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- 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