🛡️ CVE-2023-45278 — yamcs

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
9.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Yamcs API Directory Traversal vulnerability

Directory Traversal vulnerability in the storage functionality of the API in Yamcs 5.8.6 allows attackers to delete arbitrary files via crafted HTTP DELETE request.

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 none, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-45278 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-2023-45278 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.yamcs:yamcs (fixed in 5.8.7)
  • yamcs

Timeline and source

Published on 19 October 2023 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
www.linkedin.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-19
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.yamcs:yamcs — 5.8.7
yamcs — —

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