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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-46987

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.7

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

Affected Products

Vendor: owen2345

Product: camaleon-cms

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 4.67% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-18 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46987
https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-cp65-5m9r-vc2c
https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injection
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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