Directory traversal vulnerability in Subversion before 1.4.5, as used by TortoiseSVN before 1.4.5 and possibly other products, when run on W

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• subversion subversionup to 1.4.4 inclusive
• tortoisesvn tortoisesvnup to 1.4.4 inclusive

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2004-0397Stack-based buffer overflow during the apr_time_t data conversion in Subversion 1.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitra
  53Plan
• CVE-2004-0413libsvn_ra_svn in Subversion 1.0.4 trusts the length field of (1) svn://, (2) svn+ssh://, and (3) other svn protocol URL strings, which allow
  42Plan
• CVE-2009-2411Multiple integer overflows in the libsvn_delta library in Subversion before 1.5.7, and 1.6.x before 1.6.4, allow remote authenticated users
  36Monitor
• CVE-2004-0749The mod_authz_svn module in Subversion 1.0.7 and earlier does not properly restrict access to all metadata on unreadable paths, which could
  20Monitor
• CVE-2007-2448Subversion 1.4.3 and earlier does not properly implement the "partial access" privilege for users who have access to changed paths but not c
  8Monitor
• CVE-2004-1438The mod_authz_svn Apache module for Subversion 1.0.4-r1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users, with write access to the repository,
  8Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);2res.sendFile(file);

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {3  return res.sendStatus(400);4}5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.