CVE-2022-4878 — A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in JATOS

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in JATOS. Affected is the function ZipUtil of the file modules/common/app/utils/common/ZipUtil.java of the component ZIP Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. Upgrading to version 3.7.5-alpha is able to address th

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in JATOS. Affected is the function ZipUtil of the file modules/common/app/utils/common/ZipUtil.java of the component ZIP Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. Upgrading to version 3.7.5-alpha is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 2b42519f309d8164e8811392770ce604cdabb5da. It is recommended to upgrade the affected…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / JATOS	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: 2023-01-06T09:30:21.960Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T01:55:46.075Z

09References

• vuldb.com — https://vuldb.com/?id.217548
• vuldb.com — https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217548
• github.com — https://github.com/JATOS/JATOS/commit/2b42519f309d8164e8811392770ce604cdabb5da
• github.com — https://github.com/JATOS/JATOS/releases/tag/v3.7.5-alpha