CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-36825 — ** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability has been found in cyberaz0r WebRAT up to 20191222 and classified as critical
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** ** DISPUTED ** A vulnerability has been found in cyberaz0r WebRAT up to 20191222 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function download_file of the file Server/api.php. The manipulation of the argument name leads to unrestricted upload. The attack can be initiated remotely. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The patch is identified as 0c394a795b9c10c07085361e6fcea286ee793701. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. VDB-257782 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. NOTE: The issue, discovered in a 20-stars GitHub project (now private) by its author, had CVE requested by a third party 4 years post-resolution, referencing the fix commit (now a broken link). Due to minimal attention and usage, it should not be eligible for CVE according to the project maintainer.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.5 (2.0)
- Published
- 2024-03-24
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-434
Affected products
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Matched remediation archetype
Path traversal, unsafe upload, and file handling
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Check exposure
- Trace untrusted filenames, archive entries, URLs, and path segments into read, write, include, extraction, and upload operations.
- Identify filesystem roots, mount permissions, symbolic-link behavior, archive handling, and whether uploaded content is web-accessible or executable.
- Review canonicalization and containment checks across supported operating systems and storage backends.
Remediate safely
- Generate server-side storage identifiers and resolve paths beneath a fixed root using filesystem-aware containment checks.
- Reject absolute, parent-relative, alternate-separator, device, link, and archive entries that escape the intended root.
- Store uploads outside executable or served paths, validate type and size, and use private atomic temporary files.
Authoritative sources
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