GHSA-66p8-j459-rq63: Pterodactyl Wings contains UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following resulting in deletion of files and directories on the host system

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3. CVE-2023-25168

Pterodactyl Wings contains UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following resulting in deletion of files and directories on the host system

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 8, 2023 in pterodactyl/wings • Updated Feb 10, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/pterodactyl/wings (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.7.4

>= 1.11.0, < 1.11.4

Patched versions

1.7.4

1.11.4

Impact

This vulnerability impacts anyone running the affected versions of Wings. The vulnerability can be used to delete files and directories recursively on the host system. This vulnerability can be combined with GHSA-p8r3-83r8-jwj5 to overwrite files on the host system.

In order to use this exploit, an attacker must have an existing “server” allocated and controlled by Wings. Information on how the exploitation of this vulnerability works will be released on February 24th, 2023 in North America.

Patches

This vulnerability has been resolved in version v1.11.4 of Wings, and has been back-ported to the 1.7 release series in v1.7.4.

Anyone running v1.11.x should upgrade to v1.11.4 and anyone running v1.7.x should upgrade to v1.7.4.

Workarounds

None at this time.

References

• GHSA-66p8-j459-rq63
• GHSA-p8r3-83r8-jwj5
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25168
• pterodactyl/wings@429ac62

Last updated

Feb 10, 2023

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Feb 10, 2023

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Feb 9, 2023