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CVE-2023-25168

Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following allowing the deletion of files and directories on the host system in wings

Published: Feb 8, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-59
9.6CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.0%
Top 41.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

Wings is Pterodactyl's server control plane. This vulnerability can be used to delete files and directories recursively on the host system. This vulnerability can be combined with `GHSA-p8r3-83r8-jwj5` to overwrite files on the host system. In order to use this exploit, an attacker must have an existing "server" allocated and controlled by Wings. This vulnerability has been resolved in version `v1.11.4` of Wings, and has been back-ported to the 1.7 release series in `v1.7.4`. Anyone running `v1.11.x` should upgrade to `v1.11.4` and anyone running `v1.7.x` should upgrade to `v1.7.4`. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:CC:NI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected Products

pterodactyl
oss-projectaka pterodactyl/wings, pterodactyl panel
wingsMixed
Cloud & SaaS / saas-application
Go
package-ecosystem
github.com/pterodactyl/wings
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/commit/429ac62dba22997a278bc709df5ac00a5a25d83d
github.com
https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-66p8-j459-rq63
github.com
https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/security/advisories/GHSA-p8r3-83r8-jwj5
github.com
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