CVE-2020-7758

Summary

CVECVE-2020-7758
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-11-02 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-19 17:10:00 UTC
DescriptionThis affects versions of package browserless-chrome before 1.40.2-chrome-stable. User input flowing from the workspace endpoint gets used to create a file path filePath and this is fetched and then sent back to a user. This can be escaped to fetch arbitrary files from a server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Browserless Chrome All All All All
Application Browserless Chrome All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Path Traversal in browserless-chrome | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
github.com/browserless/chrome/blob/master/src/routes.ts%23L175 MISC github.com Broken Link
Ensure workspace files are _in_ the workspace DIR · browserless/chrome@848b87e · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Release 1.40.2-chrome-stable · browserless/chrome · GitHub MISC github.com
chrome/routes.ts at master · browserless/chrome · GitHub MITRE github.com
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: Snyk Security Team

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 982616 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for browserless-chrome (GHSA-8p9r-f949-699g)

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