# CVE-2024-52885: Path Traversal

> Authenticated users can exploit a directory traversal flaw in the File Share application to list files in accessible directories on the gateway.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/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:** 6 Aug 2025
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-57xr-3wqm-x7w6

## What is CVE-2024-52885?

CVE-2024-52885 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in checkpoint Check Point Mobile Access, published on 6 Aug 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The Mobile Access Portal's File Share application is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack, allowing an authenticated, malicious end-user (authorized to at least one File Share application) to list the file names of 'nobody'-accessible directories on the Mobile Access gateway.

Weakness: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory), CWE-35 (Path Traversal: '.../...//')

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52885?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Checkpoint Mobile Access, Checkpoint Remote Access Vpn.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-52885?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-52885 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-52885 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in checkpoint Check Point Mobile Access

- [CVE-2024-52888](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52888/): Stored-XSS (medium 5.4)
- [CVE-2024-52887](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52887/): Self-XSS (low 3.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-52885 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-52885 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in checkpoint Check Point Mobile Access, published on 6 Aug 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-2024-52885 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: checkpoint Check Point Mobile Access. 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-2024-52885/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52885/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52885
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52885
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52885

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-52885/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.