# CVE-2024-54449: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Arbitrary File Write In Document API

> Authenticated attackers can write arbitrary files to the server via the Document API, leading to remote code execution on the underlying operating system.

- **Severity:** High 8.7 (`CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA: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:** 14 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 18 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3h4h-g6p9-v72m

## What is CVE-2024-54449?

CVE-2024-54449 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in LogicalDOC Community, published on 14 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The API used to interact with documents in the application contains two endpoints with a flaw that allows an authenticated attacker to write a file with controlled contents to an arbitrary location on the underlying file system. This can be used to facilitate RCE. An account with ‘read’ and ‘write’ privileges on at least one existing document in the application is required to exploit the vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow an attacker to run commands of their choosing on the underlying operating system of the web server running LogicalDOC.

Weakness: CWE-23 (Relative Path Traversal)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-54449?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Logicaldoc Logicaldoc.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-54449?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-54449 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-54449 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-54449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in LogicalDOC Community

- [CVE-2020-9423](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-9423/): File upload in n/a (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2020-13542](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-13542/): Privilege escalation in LogicalDoc (critical 9.3)
- [CVE-2017-1000021](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1000021/): XML external entity in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2017-1000022](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-1000022/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-54448](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-54448/): Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Automation Scripting (high 8.6)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-54449 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-54449 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in LogicalDOC Community, published on 14 Mar 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-2024-54449 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: LogicalDOC Community. 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-2024-54449/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-54449/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-54449
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-54449
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-54449

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-54449/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.