Description
Summarize prior to 0.15.1 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the /v1/summarize daemon endpoint that allows authenticated callers to write files to arbitrary directories by supplying an absolute path or directory traversal sequence in the slidesDir request parameter. Attackers can exploit this to write slide_*.png and slides.json files to any writable directory and subsequently delete matching files at the specified location through repeat extraction.
CVSS breakdown
CVSS 4.0
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality (Vulnerable System)
None
Integrity (Vulnerable System)
High
Availability (Vulnerable System)
Low
Confidentiality (Subsequent System)
None
Integrity (Subsequent System)
None
Availability (Subsequent System)
None
CVSS 3.1
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Affected products
- steipete / summarize0 – 0.15.1
- steipete / summarizeec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f – ec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f
References
- PATCHhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/releases/tag/v0.15.2
- PATCHhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/pull/220
- PATCHhttps://github.com/steipete/summarize/commit/ec8efd63295656fbfe8743620179c489bc5a242f
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/summarize-path-traversal-via-slidesdir-parameter