File disclosure via unsanitized backup paths
Published Jan 23, 2023 · Updated Apr 3, 2025
Path traversal in Sonic 1.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to include arbitrary server files in a site backup. BackupWholeSite joined each attacker-controlled backup item to the configured work directory without cleaning the resulting path or checking that it remained beneath that directory. Administrative API access is required, and exploitation copies files readable by the Sonic process into a site backup without altering the source files.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in Sonic 1.0.4 allows remote authenticated users to include arbitrary server files in a site backup. BackupWholeSite joined each attacker-controlled backup item to the configured work directory without cleaning the resulting path or checking that it remained beneath that directory. Administrative API access is required, and exploitation copies files readable by the Sonic process into a site backup without altering the source files.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-46959
- Published
- Jan 23, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 3, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-22, T1005
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 23, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 3, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- Authenticated backup work-directory traversal requestproof of concept · unverified
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