CVE-2024-25711 diffoscope Path Traversal vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-25711?

CVE-2024-25711 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 11 Feb 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

diffoscope before 256 allows directory traversal via an embedded filename in a GPG file. Contents of any file, such as ../.ssh/id_rsa, may be disclosed to an attacker. This occurs because the value of the gpg --use-embedded-filenames option is trusted.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-25711?

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

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Reproducible Builds Diffoscope.

How do I fix CVE-2024-25711?

Upgrade diffoscope to 256 or later.

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

Is CVE-2024-25711 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-25711 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 CLEANSTART-2024-WM30423, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-25711, GHSA-33w6-hvmq-gh4x, PYSEC-2024-41, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-25711, openSUSE-SU-2024:13792-1.