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CVE-2018-14672 — In ClickHouse before 18

In ClickHouse before 18.12.13, functions for loading CatBoost models allowed path traversal and reading arbitrary files through error messages.

CVSS

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EPSS

0.43% (top 37.40%)

CWE

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Published

2019-08-15T17:54:05.000Z

Last modified

2024-08-05T09:38:13.336Z

CVSS vector

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01What is this vulnerability?

In ClickHouse before 18.12.13, functions for loading CatBoost models allowed path traversal and reading arbitrary files through error messages.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / ClickHouse	All versions prior to version 18.12.13.

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

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