CVE-2020-5840: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

May 24, 2022 (updated July 13, 2023)

An issue was discovered in HashBrown CMS before 1.3.2. Server/Entity/Resource/Connection.js allows an attacker to reach a parent directory via a crafted name or ID field.

References

github.com/HashBrownCMS/hashbrown-cms/commit/6b37b73944447bb29c6aaeb086b04196d80c692a
github.com/HashBrownCMS/hashbrown-cms/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2
github.com/HashBrownCMS/hashbrown-cms/releases/tag/v1.3.2
github.com/advisories/GHSA-q7hx-mrv5-6mrp
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5840

Code Behaviors & Features

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