CVE-2015-5350 Path traversal in Garden Nstar
Attackers can read host system files via malicious buildpacks in Cloud Foundry Diego/Garden installations, exposing sensitive data accessible to the vcap user.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-5350?
CVE-2015-5350 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Dell EMC Garden Nstar, published on 19 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Garden versions 0.22.0-0.329.0, a vulnerability has been discovered in the garden-linux nstar executable that allows access to files on the host system. By staging an application on Cloud Foundry using Diego and Garden installations with a malicious custom buildpack an end user could read files on the host system that the BOSH-created vcap user has permissions to read and then package them into their app droplet.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5350?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Cloudfoundry Garden.
How do I fix CVE-2015-5350?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-5350 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-2015-5350 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5350 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3fq5-m2m4-f2qw.