Pulp
CVE-2018-10917
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V5 - File Handling Path canonicalization, traversal prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Discovery, Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 6.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A remote attacker could access files and directories outside the intended path by sending crafted requests to the affected application. |
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Alert meAnalysisAI
pulp 2.16.x and possibly older is vulnerable to an improper path parsing. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate and canonicalize file paths. Use chroot or sandboxing. Reject input containing path separators or '../' sequences.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
This vulnerability is classified as Path Traversal (CWE-22), which allows attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path. pulp 2.16.x and possibly older is vulnerable to an improper path parsing. A malicious user or a malicious iso feed repository can write to locations accessible to the 'apache' user. This may lead to overwrite of published content on other iso repositories. Affected products include: Pulpproject Pulp.
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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Primary rating from NVD · only source for this CVE.
CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
pulp 2.16.x and possibly older is vulnerable to an improper path parsing. A malicious user or a malicious iso feed repository can write to locations accessible to the 'apache' user. This may lead to overwrite of published content on other iso repositories.
Threat Intelligence Overview
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Attack Technique
Path traversal exploits occur when applications use user-controlled input to construct file system paths without proper validation.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
server/bin/pulp-gen-ca-certificate in Pulp before 2.8.2 allows local users to read the generated private key. Rated medi
Pulp does not remove permissions for named objects upon deletion, which allows authenticated users to gain the privilege
A flaw was found in the Pulp package. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low at
Path traversal in the pulpcore content upload API allows an authenticated user holding only low-privilege file-repositor
pulp-consumer-client 2.4.0 through 2.6.3 does not check the server's TLS certificate signatures when retrieving the serv
Pulp before 2.8.5 uses bash's $RANDOM in an unsafe way to generate passwords. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulne
client/consumer/cli.py in Pulp before 2.8.3 writes consumer private keys to etc/pki/pulp/consumer/consumer-cert.pem as w
Pulp before 2.3.0 uses the same the same certificate authority key and certificate for all installations. Rated high sev
In Pulp before version 2.16.2, secrets are passed into override_config when triggering a task and then become readable t
The pulp-gen-nodes-certificate script in Pulp before 2.8.3 allows local users to leak the keys or write to arbitrary fil
The pulp-qpid-ssl-cfg script in Pulp before 2.8.5 allows local users to obtain the CA key. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5
pulp.spec in the installation process for Pulp 2.8.3 generates the RSA key pairs used to validate messages between the p
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