Path traversal in TYPO3 - CVE-2019-19848
Published: December 17, 2019 / Updated: July 17, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU30544
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19848
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: TYPO3
Affected software:
TYPO3
TYPO3
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to execute arbitrary code.
An issue was discovered in TYPO3 before 8.7.30, 9.x before 9.5.12, and 10.x before 10.2.2. It has been discovered that the extraction of manually uploaded ZIP archives in Extension Manager is vulnerable to directory traversal. Admin privileges are required in order to exploit this vulnerability. (In v9 LTS and later, System Maintainer privileges are also required.)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-19848
Install update from vendor's website.