CVE-2023-38633 Path traversal in n/a
Medium 5.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-38633 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2023-38633 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38633 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38633/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-38633/index.md)
Attackers can exploit a directory traversal flaw in librsvg to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem via crafted SVG inputs.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2023-38633?
CVE-2023-38633 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 Jul 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A directory traversal problem in the URL decoder of librsvg before 2.56.3 could be used by local or remote attackers to disclose files (on the local filesystem outside of the expected area), as demonstrated by href=".?../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd" in an xi:include element.
Weakness: CWE-22
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-38633?
It affects 3 products.
Linux distribution packages (38)
librsvg2 AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-devel AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-tools AlmaLinux:9 | All versions | 2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2 Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-tools Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2-tools-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_2.1 |
librsvg2 Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg2-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg2-debugsource Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg2-devel Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg2-tools Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg2-tools-debuginfo Red Hat:rhel_eus:9.0::appstream | All versions | 0:2.50.7-1.el9_0.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Enterprise Storage 7 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Enterprise Storage 7.1 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP4 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP5 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Manager Proxy 4.2 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg SUSE:Manager Server 4.2 | All versions | 2.46.7-150200.3.9.1 |
librsvg openSUSE:Leap 15.4 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg openSUSE:Leap 15.5 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.3 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
librsvg openSUSE:Leap Micro 5.4 | All versions | 2.52.10-150400.3.6.1 |
Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Gnome Librsvg.
How do I fix CVE-2023-38633?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2023-38633 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-38633 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Also known as ALSA-2023:5081, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38633, DSA-5484-1, GHSA-jf6v-gw88-w63q, JLSEC-2026-512, MGASA-2023-0259 and 8 more.