PT-2022-16265 · Joomla · Joomla!

Egidio Romano · Published 2022-03-30 · Updated 2025-04-03 · CVE-2022-23793

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 3.0.0 through 3.10.6 Joomla! versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.0

Description An issue was discovered where extracting a specifically crafted tar package could write files outside of the intended path.

Recommendations For Joomla! versions 3.0.0 through 3.10.6, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Joomla! versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.0, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

BIT-JOOMLA-2022-23793

CVE-2022-23793

GHSA-JM67-JH3G-CG3F

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/joomla/archive/CVE-2022-23793.yaml · Exploit
• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166546/Joomla-4.1.0-Zip-Slip-File-Overwrite-Path-Traversal.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23793 · Security Note
• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/870-20220301-core-zip-slip-within-the-tar-extractor.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jm67-jh3g-cg3f · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-joomla-2022-23793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23793 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/joomla-framework/archive · Note