CVE-2020-9689 Magento path traversal vulnerability

What is CVE-2020-9689?

CVE-2020-9689 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Magento Magento, published on 29 Jul 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Magento versions 2.3.5-p1 and earlier, and 2.3.5-p1 and earlier have a path traversal vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-9689?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including magento/community-edition, magento and magento/project-community-edition. It affects 1 product.

Products include Magento Magento.

How do I fix CVE-2020-9689?

Upgrade magento/community-edition to 2.3.5-p2 or later.

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

Is CVE-2020-9689 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9689 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-magento-2020-9689, GHSA-fr6f-xmfx-rrpq.