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high 7.7

CVE-2023-49089 json

Umbraco CMS possible path traversal when creating packages from backoffice

published 2y ago modified 2mo ago also GHSA-6324-52pr-h4p5 , EUVD-2023-3121

cvss
7.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Umbraco is an ASP.NET content management system (CMS). Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to versions 8.18.10, 10.8.1, and 12.3.0, Backoffice users with permissions to create packages can use path traversal and thereby write outside of the expected location. Versions 8.18.10, 10.8.1, and 12.3.0 contain a patch for this issue.

Patch / fix

  • nuget Umbraco.CMS 8.18.10, 10.8.1, 12.3.4
  • umbraco umbraco_cms 8.18.10, 10.8.1, 12.3.0

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Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-14).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 0.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
nuget Umbraco.CMS
>=8.0.0, <8.18.10
>=9.0.0, <10.8.1
>=11.0.0, <12.3.4
8.18.10
10.8.1
12.3.4

Affected products

  • umbraco Umbraco-CMS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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