CVE-2021-22114 Path Traversal in Spring-integration-zip

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

Attackers can write arbitrary files outside the target directory using crafted archives, requiring an upgrade to Spring Integration Zip.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2021-22114?

CVE-2021-22114 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Spring Integration Zip extension, published on 1 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Addresses partial fix in CVE-2018-1263. Spring-integration-zip, versions prior to 1.0.4, exposes an arbitrary file write vulnerability, that can be achieved using a specially crafted zip archive (affects other archives as well, bzip2, tar, xz, war, cpio, 7z), that holds path traversal filenames. So when the filename gets concatenated to the target extraction directory, the final path ends up outside of the target folder.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-22114?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-zip. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-zip MavenAll versions1.0.4
org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-zip MavenAll versions1.0.4

Products include Vmware Spring Integration Zip.

How do I fix CVE-2021-22114?

Upgrade org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-zip to 1.0.4 or later.

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

Is CVE-2021-22114 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-22114 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vw83-h3mq-3qwj.

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