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CVE-2023-4550 — Opentext Appbuilder security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

Improper Input Validation, Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties vulnerability in OpenText AppBuilder on Windows, Linux allows Probe System Files. An unauthenticated or authenticated user can abuse a page of AppBuilder to read arbitrary files on the server on which it is hosted. This issue affects AppBuilder: from 21.2 before 23.2.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.1)
Published
2024-01-29
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
windows/system
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-552

Affected products

  • opentext / appbuilder

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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