# CVE-2024-47265: Path traversal in Active Backup for Business

> Remote authenticated users can write arbitrary files via path traversal in Synology Active Backup for Business encrypted share unmounting.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/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:** 13 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-42vr-8wv2-vg62

## What is CVE-2024-47265?

CVE-2024-47265 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Synology Active Backup for Business, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in encrypted share umount functionality in Synology Active Backup for Business before 2.7.1-13234, 2.7.1-23234 and 2.7.1-3234 allows remote authenticated users to write specific files via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-73 (External Control of File Name or Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-47265?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Synology Active Backup for Business Agent.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-47265?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-47265 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-47265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Synology Active Backup for Business

- [CVE-2025-66592](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-66592/): Path traversal in Synology Active Backup for Business Agent (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2023-52949](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52949/): Missing authorization in Synology Active Backup for Business Agent (medium 5.5)
- [CVE-2023-52950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52950/): Information disclosure in Synology Active Backup for Business Agent (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2023-52948](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52948/): Information disclosure in Synology Active Backup for Business Agent (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2024-47264](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47264/): Path traversal in Active Backup for Business (medium 4.9)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-47265 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-47265 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Synology Active Backup for Business, published on 13 Feb 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-47265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Synology Active Backup for Business. 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-2024-47265/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-47265/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-47265
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47265
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-47265

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