CVE-2016-4320 Path traversal in Atlassian Bitbucket Server before 4.7.1

What is CVE-2016-4320?

CVE-2016-4320 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server before 4.7.1, published on 10 Apr 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Atlassian Bitbucket Server before 4.7.1 allows remote attackers to read the first line of an arbitrary file via a directory traversal attack on the pull requests resource.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4320?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Bitbucket.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4320?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-4320 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-2016-4320 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4320 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Atlassian Bitbucket Server before 4.7.1

• CVE-2022-36804 Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center Command Injection Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-5225 Path traversal in Bitbucket Server Critical 9.9
• CVE-2022-43781 Command injection in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-15000 Command injection in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-3397 Path traversal in Bitbucket Data Center Critical 9.1

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-mmfc-28m2-824q.