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🛡️ CVE-2022-4572 — ubi-reader

🟡 CVSS 5.4 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 OSV
5.4
CVSS Score
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Description

UBI Reader vulnerable to Path Traversal

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in UBI Reader up to 0.8.0. Affected by this issue is the function ubireader_extract_files of the file ubireader/ubifs/output.py of the component UBIFS File Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 0.8.5 can address this issue. The name of the patch is d5d68e6b1b9f7070c29df5f67fc060f579ae9139. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-216146 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Passive — a victim action is involved, but not a deliberate one.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-4572 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-2022-4572 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ubi-reader (fixed in 0.8.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Fix)
vuldb.com (Web)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Fix)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

ubi-reader has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-12-17
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ubi-reader — 0.8.2

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