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NGINX alias path traversal for the Open Front End

Moderate
cboneti published GHSA-8p5j-5fq2-52gj Feb 22, 2023

Package

community/front-end/ofe (Open Front End for the Cloud HPC Toolkit)

Affected versions

1.10.0 - 1.11.0

Patched versions

1.12.0

Description

Summary

There was a Arbitrary File Read vulnerability in https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/hpc-toolkit/raw/main/community/front-end/ofe/website/nginx.conf.

This vulnerability allowed the download of the source code and the SQLite database running the Open Front End.

Impact

An attacker can exfiltrate files of the webserver, leaking the secret token was not possible yet because the .secret_key file resides two directory levels above, making accessing it through the path traversal not possible.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs