CVE-2019-17199

published 2019-10-05

CVE-2019-17199: www/getfile.php in WPO WebPageTest 19.04 on Windows allows Directory Traversal (for reading arbitrary files) because of an unanchored regular expression, as…

Priority P2 60 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C H I N A N

EXPLOIT

www/getfile.php in WPO WebPageTest 19.04 on Windows allows Directory Traversal (for reading arbitrary files) because of an unanchored regular expression, as demonstrated by the a.jpg\.. substring.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
webpagetest	webpagetest	—	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

path www/getfile.php↗

other a.jpg\..↗

• → Monitor HTTP requests to www/getfile.php containing path traversal sequences such as 'a.jpg\..' in the 'file' parameter, which bypass the unanchored regular expression filter to read arbitrary files outside the www directory. ↗
• → The vulnerable parameter is 'file' in the getfile.php (also referenced as gettext.php) script; inspect requests where this parameter contains directory traversal patterns to detect exploitation attempts. ↗

• · The directory traversal is Windows-specific; the unanchored regex bypass using 'a.jpg\..' relies on Windows path handling and may not be exploitable on non-Windows deployments. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

osv 5.3 MEDIUM

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