CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-40274

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.92%

56th percentile - higher than 56% of all known CVEs

Summary

An issue was discovered in zola versions 0.13.0 through 0.17.2 related to the web server implementation. The handle_request function does not account for sequences of special path control characters in the URL, allowing directory traversal and reading arbitrary files from the filesystem.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to the exposure of sensitive data from the filesystem, posing a significant security risk to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update zola to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor server logs for potential exploitation attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An issue was discovered in zola 0.13.0 through 0.17.2. The custom implementation of a web server, available via the "zola serve" command, allows directory traversal. The handle_request function, used by the server to process HTTP requests, does not account for sequences of special path control characters (../) in the URL when serving a file, which allows one to escape the webroot of the server and read arbitrary files from the filesystem.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS