CVE-2024-22049 httparty Multipart/Form-Data Request Tampering Vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-22049?

CVE-2024-22049 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Jan 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

httparty before 0.21.0 is vulnerable to an assumed-immutable web parameter vulnerability. A remote and unauthenticated attacker can provide a crafted filename parameter during multipart/form-data uploads which could result in attacker controlled filenames being written.

Weakness: CWE-472

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22049?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including httparty. It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Jnunemaker Httparty.

How do I fix CVE-2024-22049?

Upgrade httparty to 0.21.0 or later.

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

Is CVE-2024-22049 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-22049 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22049, DLA-3716-1, DLA-3900-1, GHSA-5pq7-52mg-hr42, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-22049.