Host file disclosure via symlink race
Published Mar 13, 2024 · Updated Apr 15, 2025
Path traversal in Pterodactyl Wings before 1.11.9 allows remote authenticated users to read host files through a controlled server. The server filesystem checks a path before access, allowing its entry to be replaced with a symlink that a later operation follows outside the sandbox root. Exploitation requires control of an allocated server; host-file reading is confirmed, while the full impact remains unspecified.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in Pterodactyl Wings before 1.11.9 allows remote authenticated users to read host files through a controlled server. The server filesystem checks a path before access, allowing its entry to be replaced with a symlink that a later operation follows outside the sandbox root. Exploitation requires control of an allocated server; host-file reading is confirmed, while the full impact remains unspecified.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-27102
- Published
- Mar 13, 2024
- Updated
- Apr 15, 2025
- Vendor
- Pterodactyl
- Product
- Wings
- Classifications
- CWE-362, CWE-363, CWE-22, T1005
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 13, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 15, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.11.9
- Affected versionversion=< 1.11.9
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