# CVE-2024-1303: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Badger Meter's Monitool

> An authenticated attacker can exploit a path traversal flaw in Monitool to retrieve arbitrary files from the device.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Mar 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g662-fqhc-2vp3

## What is CVE-2024-1303?

CVE-2024-1303 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Badger Meter Monitool, published on 12 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Incorrectly limiting the path to a restricted directory vulnerability in Badger Meter Monitool that affects versions up to 4.6.3 and earlier. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to retrieve any file from the device using the download-file functionality.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-1303?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Badgermeter Monitool.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-1303?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-1303 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-1303 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1303 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- POC Badgermeter moni tool - CVE-2024-1303 (github_poc): https://github.com/guillermogm4/CVE-2024-1303---Badgermeter-moni-tool-Path-Traversal

## Other vulnerabilities in Badger Meter Monitool

- [CVE-2024-1301](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1301/): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Badger Meter's Monitool (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2024-1302](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1302/): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Badger Meter's Monitool (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2024-1304](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1304/): Multiple Vulnerabilities in Badger Meter's Monitool (medium 6.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-1303 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-1303 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Badger Meter Monitool, published on 12 Mar 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-1303 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Badger Meter Monitool. 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-2024-1303/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1303/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-1303
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1303
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-1303

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-1303/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.