CVE-2024-49771
MPXJ has a Potential Path Traversal Vulnerability
5.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.19%
Description
### Impact The patch for the historical vulnerability CVE-2020-35460 in MPXJ is incomplete as there is still a possibility that a malicious path could be constructed which would not be picked up by the original fix and allow files to be written to arbitrary locations. ### Patches The issue is addressed in MPXJ version 13.5.1 ### Workarounds Do not pass zip files to MPXJ. ### References N/A ### Credits Issue report and patch provided by yyjLF and sprinkle
How to fix CVE-2024-49771
To remediate CVE-2024-49771, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
- —upgrade to 13.5.1 or later
Is CVE-2024-49771 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (7)
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
- >= 13.0.0, < 13.5.1
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
- >= 8.3.5, < 13.5.1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |