{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00015172","kind":"vulnerability","title":"MobSF Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in ZIP Uploads","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-8j49-mmcx-4mp5","CVE-2026-68922"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for mobsf. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-351ffeb27ffec74a62dcda8c85befe34"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-08-18T18:01:28.000Z","value":"5.5 medium","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-351ffeb27ffec74a62dcda8c85befe34"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-351ffeb27ffec74a62dcda8c85befe34","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8j49-mmcx-4mp5","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-8j49-mmcx-4mp5","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-02T20:15:44.568Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-351ffeb27ffec74a62dcda8c85befe34"],"technology":"mobsf","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"### Summary\nThe `find_icon_path_zip()` function in MobSF does not properly sanitize the `android:icon` attribute extracted from an Android manifest before resolving it as a filesystem path.\n\nAn attacker can supply a malicious `android:icon` value containing path traversal sequences, causing MobSF to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem and copy them into the downloads directory (`DWD_DIR`). These files can then be retrieved by any authenticated user via the `/download/` endpoint, provided the file extension is included in `ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS`.\n\n### Details\n```\nelif icon_path.startswith(('res/', '/res/')):\n    stripped_relative_path = icon_path.strip('/res')  # Works for neither /res nor res\n    full_path = os.path.join(res_dir, stripped_relative_path)\n    if os.path.exists(full_path):\n        return full_path\n    full_path += '.png'\n    if os.path.exists(full_path):\n        return full_path\n```\nhttps://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF/blob/6e875fb77baa9dbe65ff8e7d0344d740e1d6d51e/mobsf/StaticAnalyzer/views/android/icon_analysis.py#L126\n\nThis code enables path traversal if a value like 'res/../../../signatures/maltrail-malware-domains.txt' is use","public_affected_ranges":["< 4.5.1"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-03T10:03:26.556Z","source_updated_at":"2026-08-18T18:01:28.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-08-18T18:01:26.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-11-02T20:15:44.568Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}