Path traversal in Nexus Repository Manager - CVE-2024-4956
Published: May 24, 2024 / Updated: March 31, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU89813
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4956
CWE-ID: CWE-22
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and download arbitrary files from on the system.
Affected software
Nexus Repository Manager
How to mitigate CVE-2024-4956
Install update from vendor's website.
Nexus Repository Manager - update to 3.68.1-02
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
- Exploit #11272 - CVE-2024-4956 (Detection and exploitation scripts for CVE-2024-4956) (March 31, 2025)
- Exploit #11131 - CVE-2024-4956 (February 12, 2025)
- Exploit #10985 - cve-2024-4956 (December 13, 2024)
- Exploit #10577 - shirocrack (Simple hash cracker for Apache Shiro hashes written in Golang. Useful for exploiting CVE-2024-4956.) (October 11, 2024)
- Exploit #10405 - CVE-2024-4956 (August 16, 2024)
- Exploit #10185 - CVE-2024-4956 (July 5, 2024)
- Exploit #9999 - CVE-2024-4956 (June 14, 2024)
- Exploit #9929 - CVE-2024-4956 (June 7, 2024)
- Exploit #9882 - CVE-2024-4956-Sonatype-Nexus-Repository-Manager (Exploit for CVE-2024-4956 affecting all previous Sonatype Nexus Repository 3.x OSS/Pro versions up to and including 3.68.0) (May 31, 2024)
- Exploit #9880 - CVE-2024-4956 (May 31, 2024)
- Exploit #9862 - CVE-2024-4956 (May 24, 2024)