# CVE-2024-31220: Sunshine vulnerable to remote unauthenticated arbitrary file read

> Remote attackers can read arbitrary files without authentication if the Sunshine configuration web interface is exposed to the network.

- **Severity:** High 7.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 5 Apr 2024
- **Updated:** 2 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-6rg7-7m3w-w5wc

## What is CVE-2024-31220?

CVE-2024-31220 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in LizardByte Sunshine, published on 5 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. Starting in version 0.16.0 and prior to version 0.18.0, an attacker may be able to remotely read arbitrary files without authentication due to a path traversal vulnerability. Users who exposed the Sunshine configuration web user interface outside of localhost may be affected, depending on firewall configuration. To exploit vulnerability, attacker could make an http/s request to the `node_modules` endpoint if user exposed Sunshine config web server to internet or attacker is on the LAN. Version 0.18.0 contains a patch for this issue. As a workaround, one may block access to Sunshine via firewall.

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

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-31220?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Lizardbyte Sunshine.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-31220?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-31220 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-31220 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-31220 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in LizardByte Sunshine

- [CVE-2026-32253](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-32253/): Sunshine: Authentication bypass via improper client certificate validation (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2025-53095](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-53095/): Sunshine application-wide CSRF in the UI leads to command injection as Administrator (critical 9.7)
- [CVE-2025-10198](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10198/): LizardBytes Sunshine for Windows contains a DLL search-order hijacking vulnerability (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2025-10199](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-10199/): A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in LizardBytes' Sunshine for Windows (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2024-51738](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-51738/): Sunshine improperly enforces pairing protocol request order (high 7.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-31220 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-31220 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in LizardByte Sunshine, published on 5 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-31220 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: LizardByte Sunshine. 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-2024-31220/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31220/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-31220
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-31220
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-31220

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-31220/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.