Insufficient verification of data authenticity in Eclipse Theia - CVE-2019-17636
Published: March 16, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU26096
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17636
CWE-ID: CWE-345
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to the "Mini-Browser" extension exposes a HTTP endpoint. A remote attacker can perform a DNS rebinding attack or a drive-by download of a carefully crafted exploit and read the content of files on the host's filesystem, given their path, without restrictions on the requester's origin.
Affected software
Eclipse Theia
How to mitigate CVE-2019-17636
Install updates from vendor's website.
Eclipse Theia - update to 0.16.0