CVE-2024-46987
Arbitrary path traversal in Camaleon CMS
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.7 High
- Published
- Sep 18, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 17, 2025
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2024
Description
Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails. A path traversal vulnerability accessible via MediaController's download_private_file method allows authenticated users to download any file on the web server Camaleon CMS is running on (depending on the file permissions). This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.8.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.7 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
camaleon-cmsowen2345 |
|
References
- https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-cp65-5m9r-vc2c
- https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injection
- https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-182_GHSL-2024-186_Camaleon_CMS
- https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1exwtdm/camaleon_cms_281_has_been_released
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