PT-2018-11216 · Publiccms · Publiccms

Jearyorg · Published 2018-06-15 · Updated 2019-03-18 · CVE-2018-12494

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PublicCMS version 4.0.20180210

Description An issue was discovered that allows for "Directory Traversal" and "Arbitrary file read" via the "/admin/cmsTemplate/content.html" API endpoint with a path variable set to ../.

Recommendations For PublicCMS version 4.0.20180210, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the /admin/cmsTemplate/content.html API endpoint until a patch is available. Avoid using the path variable in this endpoint with relative paths that could lead to directory traversal.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-12494

Affected Products

Publiccms

References · 3

• 🔥 https://github.com/sanluan/PublicCMS/issues/12 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-12494 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-12494 · Security Note