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CVE-2022-24900

CRITICAL Exploitation: PoC
9.9
CVSS 3.1
Description
Piano LED Visualizer is software that allows LED lights to light up as a person plays a piano connected to a computer. Version 1.3 and prior are vulnerable to a path traversal attack. The `os.path.join` call is unsafe for use with untrusted input. When the `os.path.join` call encounters an absolute path, it ignores all the parameters it has encountered till that point and starts working with the new absolute path. Since the "malicious" parameter represents an absolute path, the result of `os.path.join` ignores the static directory completely. Hence, untrusted input is passed via the `os.path.join` call to `flask.send_file` can lead to path traversal attacks. A patch with a fix is available on the `master` branch of the GitHub repository. This can also be fixed by preventing flow of untrusted data to the vulnerable `send_file` function. In case the application logic necessiates this behaviour, one can either use the `flask.safe_join` to join untrusted paths or replace `flask.send_file` calls with `flask.send_from_directory` calls.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2022-24900
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2022-02-10 00:00 UTC
Published
2022-04-29 13:50 UTC
Last updated
2025-04-22 18:02 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-73
CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path
Vendor / Product
onlaj / Piano-LED-Visualizer
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.9 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
SSVC — CISA Coordinator
Exploitation
PoC
Automatable
yes
Tech. Impact
partial
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
onlaj Piano-LED-Visualizer <= 1.3
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-22 cna CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-73 cna CWE-73: External Control of File Name or Path
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
9.9 CRITICAL 3.1 cna CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L
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