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CVE-2024-46987: Arbitrary path traversal in Camaleon CMS

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 14.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails. A path traversal vulnerability accessible via MediaController's download_private_file method allows authenticated users to download any file on the web server Camaleon CMS is running on (depending on the file permissions). This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.8.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

• owen2345 camaleon-cms: from 2.8.0 before 2.8.2 — fixed in 2.8.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: owen2345 camaleon-cms 2.8.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injection
• https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-cp65-5m9r-vc2c
• https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-182_GHSL-2024-186_Camaleon_CMS
• https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1exwtdm/camaleon_cms_281_has_been_released

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