Authenticated code execution via ActionScript path traversal
Published Aug 4, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2025
Path traversal in LiquidFiles before 4.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute local files through ActionScript event settings. The path method in lib/actionscript.rb appends a shell-escaped script value to the ActionScripts directory without rejecting traversal components, and execute passes the resulting path to Sudo.exec. An administrator must configure an event ActionScript, at least one ActionScript must already exist, and triggered execution runs as the _actionscript account.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in LiquidFiles before 4.1.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute local files through ActionScript event settings. The path method in lib/actionscript.rb appends a shell-escaped script value to the ActionScripts directory without rejecting traversal components, and execute passes the resulting path to Sudo.exec. An administrator must configure an event ActionScript, at least one ActionScript must already exist, and triggered execution runs as the _actionscript account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-46094
- Published
- Aug 4, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2025
- Vendor
- LiquidFiles
- Product
- LiquidFiles
- Classifications
- CWE-24, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- admin
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Aug 4, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <4.1.2
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Public exploit references
- LiquidFiles ActionScript path-traversal RCE proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
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