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CVE-2024-24756: Crafatar path traversal vulnerability

7.5 CVSS

Description

Crafatar serves Minecraft avatars based on the skin for use in external applications. Files outside of the `lib/public/` directory can be requested from the server. Instances running behind Cloudflare (including crafatar.com) are not affected. Instances using the Docker container as shown in the README are affected, but only files within the container can be read. By default, all of the files within the container can also be found in this repository and are not confidential. This vulnerability is patched in 2.1.5.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-24756

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem Types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Vendor: crafatar

Product: crafatar

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.26% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 49.45% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-13 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: true

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-24756
https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/security/advisories/GHSA-5cxq-25mp-q5f2
https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/commit/bba004acc725b362a5d2d5dfe30cf60e7365a373
https://github.com/crafatar/crafatar/blob/e0233f2899a3206a817d2dd3b80da83d51c7a726/lib/server.js#L64-L67

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