CVE-2019-5624

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-5624
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-30 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-01 02:22:00 UTC
DescriptionRapid7 Metasploit Framework suffers from an instance of CWE-22, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in the Zip import function of Metasploit. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in Metasploit at the privilege level of the user running Metasploit. This issue affects: Rapid7 Metasploit Framework version 4.14.0 and prior versions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Rapid7 Metasploit All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Zip import directory traversal mitigation by sgonzalez-r7 · Pull Request #11716 · rapid7/metasploit-framework · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
On insecure zip handling, Rubyzip and Metasploit RCE (CVE-2019-5624) · Doyensec's Blog MISC blog.doyensec.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Metasploit Release Notes Archive - April 2019 CONFIRM help.rapid7.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This issue was discovered by Doyensec, and reported privately by Luca Carettoni.

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