CVE-2018-11789

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

When accessing the heron-ui webpage, people can modify the file paths outside of the current container to access any file on the host. Example woule be modifying the parameter path= to go to the directory you would like to view. i.e. ..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Heron (Incubating): from 0.13.0 through 0.17.8

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107430
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5ea1a102d87a47c5912d745fa0d5dfa2830fc94099cbc30911f095b9%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/107430
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5ea1a102d87a47c5912d745fa0d5dfa2830fc94099cbc30911f095b9%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E

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