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CVE-2024-49760: OpenRefine has a path traversal in LoadLanguageCommand

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. The load-language command expects a `lang` parameter from which it constructs the path of the localization file to load, of the form `translations-$LANG.json`. But when doing so in versions prior to 3.8.3, it does not check that the resulting path is in the expected directory, which means that this command could be exploited to read other JSON files on the file system. Version 3.8.3 addresses this issue.

Affected products

• OpenRefine: before 3.8.3 — fixed in 3.8.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenRefine 3.8.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/commit/24d084052dc55426fe460f2a17524fd18d28b20c
• https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/security/advisories/GHSA-qfwq-6jh6-8xx4

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