vulnerability / NVI-00017715 / Revision 1
DSpace: Path Traversal is possible through LDN message generation
GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for org.dspace:dspace-api, org.dspace:dspace-api, org.dspace:dspace-api. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.
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01 / Meaning
Why it matters
Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.
5.5 medium
GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.
As of · GitHub Advisory Database
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
org.dspace:dspace-api
source listed>= 8.0-rc1, <= 8.3
## Overview A path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. _This vulnerability impacts DSpace versions 8.0 <= 8.3, 9.0 <= 9.2._ The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack. When reading a file input stream of an "inbound pattern" / "template", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. This could allow an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system (e.g. an export log, a bitstream path, a temporary file) to be read and interpreted as an Apache Velocity template. Expected behaviour : Only the trusted templates kept in `$dspace.dir/config/ldn` should be allowed or used by LDN. ## Impact On its own this seems a fairly low-impact problem: only DSpace Administrators can set LDN template names in services, and you typically need more access to manipulate files on the server. However, this vulnerability was included as part of an attack chain that demonstrated the ability of a DSpace Administrator to put the malicious Velocity payl
org.dspace:dspace-api
source listed>= 9.0-rc1, <= 9.2
## Overview A path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. _This vulnerability impacts DSpace versions 8.0 <= 8.3, 9.0 <= 9.2._ The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack. When reading a file input stream of an "inbound pattern" / "template", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. This could allow an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system (e.g. an export log, a bitstream path, a temporary file) to be read and interpreted as an Apache Velocity template. Expected behaviour : Only the trusted templates kept in `$dspace.dir/config/ldn` should be allowed or used by LDN. ## Impact On its own this seems a fairly low-impact problem: only DSpace Administrators can set LDN template names in services, and you typically need more access to manipulate files on the server. However, this vulnerability was included as part of an attack chain that demonstrated the ability of a DSpace Administrator to put the malicious Velocity payl
org.dspace:dspace-api
source listed= 10.0-rc1
## Overview A path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. _This vulnerability impacts DSpace versions 8.0 <= 8.3, 9.0 <= 9.2._ The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack. When reading a file input stream of an "inbound pattern" / "template", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. This could allow an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system (e.g. an export log, a bitstream path, a temporary file) to be read and interpreted as an Apache Velocity template. Expected behaviour : Only the trusted templates kept in `$dspace.dir/config/ldn` should be allowed or used by LDN. ## Impact On its own this seems a fairly low-impact problem: only DSpace Administrators can set LDN template names in services, and you typically need more access to manipulate files on the server. However, this vulnerability was included as part of an attack chain that demonstrated the ability of a DSpace Administrator to put the malicious Velocity payl
03 / Response
What to do next
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04 / Limits
What this report cannot establish
- Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected.
05 / Provenance
Sources you can inspect
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