PT-2023-14603 · Refirm+2 · Binwalk+2

Qkaiser + 1 · Published 2023-01-25 · Updated 2025-12-16 · CVE-2022-4510

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions binwalk versions 2.1.2b through 2.3.3

Description binwalk is susceptible to a path traversal vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious PFS filesystem file, which allows them to extract files to arbitrary locations when binwalk is run in extraction mode (using the -e option). This can lead to remote code execution by extracting a malicious binwalk module into the .config/binwalk/plugins folder. The vulnerability is associated with the src/binwalk/plugins/unpfs.py file.

Recommendations Upgrade to a version of binwalk newer than 2.3.3.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2021-4837

ALT-PU-2024-8902

ALT-PU-2025-1936

CVE-2022-4510

DLA-3339-1

DLA-4410-1

GHSA-3CM8-V4MC-GPPG

MGASA-2023-0074

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12649-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Debian

Binwalk

References · 29

• 🔥 https://github.com/ReFirmLabs/binwalk/pull/617 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/adhikara13/CVE-2022-4510-WalkingPath · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/electr0sm0g/CVE-2022-4510 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/51249 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4510 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-3339-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2023-0074 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2023-0074.html · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]/thread/M2TTCIDC6ZNFMU5XFFFDFZEBHO2CU5NG · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-4510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3cm8-v4mc-gppg · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-4510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4510 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12649-1 · Vendor Advisory