CVE-2014-4507 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-4507?

CVE-2014-4507 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Theforeman Foreman, published on 20 Jun 2014. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Smart-Proxy in Foreman before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the dst parameter to tftp/fetch_boot_file.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-4507?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Theforeman Foreman.

How do I fix CVE-2014-4507?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-4507 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2014-4507 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-4507 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Theforeman Foreman

• CVE-2018-14643 smart_proxy_dynflow gem authentication bypass in Foreman remote execution feature Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7505 Missing authorization in foreman High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4475 Missing authorization in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2016-3728 Code injection in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2015-5246 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.1

All Theforeman Foreman vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-6wqr-674j-j3cx.