CVE-2024-0406: Red Hat Mholt/archiver: path traversal vulnerability
This Red Hat advisory covers CVE-2024-0406 in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3.
- CVE-2024-0406
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- Medium, CVSS 6.1
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalogue checked )
- Fixed in
- openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9:v4.18.0-202503051333.p0.g22b273d.assembly.stream.el9, RHSA-2025:2449
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
A flaw was discovered in the mholt/archiver package. This flaw allows an attacker to create a specially crafted tar file, which, when unpacked, may allow access to restricted files or directories.
This issue can allow the creation or overwriting of files with the user's or application's privileges using the library. This is a path traversal vulnerability in v3 of mhol/archiver and has been marked as moderate for a variety of reasons.
First and foremost the attacker in order to exploit this vulnerability would require local files system/code execution level access, this cannot be exploited on a network level, secondly, the successful exploitation of this vulnerability only result in overwriting of files, not denial of service due to resource exhaustion and no code execution, keeping all these things in mind redhat has assigned this as moderate impact.
Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N). Weakness: CWE-22.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18; Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3. Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2025:2449.
Text from the source record.
How to fix CVE-2024-0406
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Red Hat:
- openshift4/oc-mirror-plugin-rhel9:v4.18.0-202503051333.p0.g22b273d.assembly.stream.el9
- RHSA-2025:2449
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