🛡️ CVE-2018-25059 — pastebinit

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

pastebinit Path Traversal vulnerability

A vulnerability was found in pastebinit up to 0.2.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function pasteHandler of the file server.go. The manipulation of the argument r.URL.Path leads to path traversal. Upgrading to version 0.2.3 can address this issue. The name of the patch is 1af2facb6d95976c532b7f8f82747d454a092272. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217040.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2018-25059 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2018-25059 is recorded against 1 package.

  • github.com/jessfraz/pastebinit

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2022 and last revised on 3 March 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
vuldb.com (Web)
vuldb.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-12-30
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-03-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/jessfraz/pastebinit — —

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