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CVE-2023-40502 High · 8.2 EPSS 83.1%

LG Simple Editor cropImage Directory Traversal Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

LG · Simple Editor

Summary

The LG Simple Editor product contains a path traversal flaw in the cropImage command, where a user-supplied path is used in file operations without proper validation. A remote attacker with no authentication and no user interaction can exploit this to delete arbitrary files on affected installations, with the deletions carried out in the context of SYSTEM.

Official description · CVE.org

LG Simple Editor cropImage Directory Traversal Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files on affected installations of LG Simple Editor. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the implementation of the cropImage command. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to delete files in the context of SYSTEM. . Was ZDI-CAN-19951.

Breakdown
25.7 / 100
Exploited
Not confirmed
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

Disclosed on 3 May 2024. No public exploit code or confirmed exploitation is recorded.

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

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