CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-4550

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Published: Jan 29, 2024 | Modified: Feb 05, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Improper Input Validation, Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties vulnerability in OpenText AppBuilder on Windows, Linux allows Probe System Files.

An unauthenticated or authenticated user can abuse a page of AppBuilder to read arbitrary files on the server on which it is hosted.

This issue affects AppBuilder: from 21.2 before 23.2.

Weakness

The product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Appbuilder Opentext 21.2 (including) 23.2 (excluding)

Extended Description

Web servers, FTP servers, and similar servers may store a set of files underneath a “root” directory that is accessible to the server’s users. Applications may store sensitive files underneath this root without also using access control to limit which users may request those files, if any. Alternately, an application might package multiple files or directories into an archive file (e.g., ZIP or tar), but the application might not exclude sensitive files that are underneath those directories. In cloud technologies and containers, this weakness might present itself in the form of misconfigured storage accounts that can be read or written by a public or anonymous user.

Potential Mitigations

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