CVE-2013-1809 Path traversal in gambas3

What is CVE-2013-1809?

CVE-2013-1809 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Nov 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Gambas before 3.4.0 allows remote attackers to move or manipulate directory contents or perform symlink attacks due to the creation of insecure temporary directories.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-1809?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gambas Project Gambas.

How do I fix CVE-2013-1809?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2013-1809 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-1809 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2013-1809, GHSA-q2wp-fxf8-h3rv.