CVE-2014-9581 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9581?

CVE-2014-9581 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Jan 2015. It can be exploited over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in components/filemanager/download.php in Codiad 2.4.3 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the path parameter. NOTE: this issue was originally incorrectly mapped to CVE-2014-1137; see CVE-2014-1137 for more information.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9581?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Codiad Codiad.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9581?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9581 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-2014-9581 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9581 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2019-19208 Code injection in codiad Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-14009 Codiad remote code execution vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-11366 Codiad Vulnerable to Shell Command Injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-14043 Codiad CSRF Vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2020-23355 Codiad Vulnerable to PHP Magic Hash Vulnerability High 7.5

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-pcxg-9mqj-2f8c.