CVE-2020-24571

published 2020-08-21

CVE-2020-24571: NexusQA NexusDB before 4.50.23 allows the reading of files via ../ directory traversal.

Priority P2 63 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

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

EXPLOIT

NexusQA NexusDB before 4.50.23 allows the reading of files via ../ directory traversal.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nexusdb	nexusdb	< 4.50.23	4.50.23

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

path /../../../../../../../../windows/win.ini↗

• → HTTP GET request using ../ directory traversal path targeting windows/win.ini; a 200 response with '[extensions]' in the body confirms successful LFI exploitation. ↗

• · Vulnerability affects NexusDB versions before 4.50.23 only; the directory traversal path uses eight ../ sequences to reach the filesystem root before targeting windows/win.ini. ↗

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

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