CVE-2023-45283 — Path Traversal in Standard Library Path Filepath
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 45.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 9
Latest updateNov 14
Description
The filepath package does not recognize paths with a \??\ prefix as special. On Windows, a path beginning with \??\ is a Root Local Device path equivalent to a path beginning with \\?\. Paths with a \??\ prefix may be used to access arbitrary locations on the system. For example, the path \??\c:\x is equivalent to the more common path c:\x. Before fix, Clean could convert a rooted path such as \a\..\??\b into the root local device path \??\b. Clean will now convert this to .\??\b. Similarly, Joi…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6