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CVE-2024-49771 (mpxj): MPXJ has a Potential Path Traversal Vulnerability

ADVISORIES

GEM

mpxj

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 5.3 (Medium)

UNAFFECTED VERSIONS

  • < 8.3.5

PATCHED VERSIONS

  • >= 13.5.1

DESCRIPTION

Impact

The patch for the historical vulnerability CVE-2020-35460 in MPXJ is incomplete as there is still a possibility that a malicious path could be constructed which would not be picked up by the original fix and allow files to be written to arbitrary locations.

Patches

The issue is addressed in MPXJ version 13.5.1

Workarounds

Do not pass zip files to MPXJ.

References

N/A

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