CVE-2020-15388 Path traversal in Brocade Fabric OS

What is CVE-2020-15388?

CVE-2020-15388 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 18 Mar 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability in the Brocade Fabric OS before Brocade Fabric OS v9.0.1a, v8.2.3, v8.2.0_CBN4, and v7.4.2h could allow an authenticated CLI user to abuse the history command to write arbitrary content to files.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-15388?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2020-15388?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-15388 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-2020-15388 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-15388 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9xm4-4cpx-rm88.