CVE-2024-57186: Erxes Path Traversal vulnerability

June 10, 2025

In Erxes <1.6.2, an unauthenticated attacker can read arbitrary files from the system using a Path Traversal vulnerability in the /read-file endpoint handler.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-rq9r-qvwg-829q
github.com/erxes/erxes
github.com/erxes/erxes/commit/d626070a0fcd435ae29e689aca051ccfb440c2f3
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57186
www.sonarsource.com/blog/micro-services-major-headaches-detecting-vulnerabilities-in-erxes-microservices

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