DSpace vulnerabilities

DSpace, a repository application, in versions 8.0-rc1 to before 8.4, 9.0-rc1 to before 9.3, and 10-rc1 to before 10.0, has a path traversal vulnerability via the COAR Notify / LDN service. The attacker must already have DSpace administrator credentials. When reading a file input stream of an inbound pattern/template used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict templates to a known base path. This could allow reading and interpreting an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system as an Apache Velocity template.

DSpace versions 8.0-rc1 to before 8.4, 9.0-rc1 to before 9.3, and 10-rc1 allow Remote Code Execution (RCE) via Velocity Templates used for COAR Notify/LDN messages. Patched in versions 8.4, 9.3, and 10.0.

DSpace, prior to versions 7.6.7, 8.4, 9.3, and 10.0, in the Curation Task feature allows an output path to be used by the reporter (-r parameter) without restricting it to a base path. This means any path writable by the DSpace (often 'tomcat') user is allowed, constituting a path traversal vulnerability in the curate script.

DSpace, prior to versions 7.6.7, 8.4, 9.3, and 10.0, when ingesting an aggregated ORE resource by URI (using the OAI-ORE Harvester), the ORE Ingestion Crosswalk does not validate the URI scheme. This may allow local file inclusion via malicious paths like file:///etc/passwd. The attacker must already have DSpace collection administrator privileges.