Admin-authenticated file disclosure via path traversal
Published Mar 3, 2025 · Updated Apr 10, 2025
Path traversal in Esri ArcGIS Server 11.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read files outside designated directories. Esri has not disclosed the affected request handler or how it fails to confine attacker-supplied paths to an intended directory. Exploitation requires an administrative account and has no reported file-write or service-interruption impact.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in Esri ArcGIS Server 11.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to read files outside designated directories. Esri has not disclosed the affected request handler or how it fails to confine attacker-supplied paths to an intended directory. Exploitation requires an administrative account and has no reported file-write or service-interruption impact.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-51966
- Published
- Mar 3, 2025
- Updated
- Apr 10, 2025
- Vendor
- Esri
- Product
- ArcGIS Server
- Classifications
- CWE-22, CAPEC-126, T1005
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 3, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 10, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=all <=11.3
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