CVE-2019-12276 — A Path Traversal vulnerability in Controllers/LetsEncryptController

A Path Traversal vulnerability in Controllers/LetsEncryptController.cs in LetsEncryptController in GrandNode 4.40 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files on the web server via specially crafted LetsEncrypt/Index?fileName= HTTP requests. A patch for th

01What is this vulnerability?

A Path Traversal vulnerability in Controllers/LetsEncryptController.cs in LetsEncryptController in GrandNode 4.40 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files on the web server via specially crafted LetsEncrypt/Index?fileName= HTTP requests. A patch for this issue was made on 2019-05-30 in GrandNode 4.40.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

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

04Recommended remediation

• 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.

05Technical details

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

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

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

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-06-05T17:30:01.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:17:38.865Z

09References

• grandnode.com — https://grandnode.com
• github.com — https://github.com/grandnode/grandnode
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153373/GrandNode-4.40-Path-Traversal-File-D…