CVE-2024-57669
Published: 03 February 2025
Summary
CVE-2024-57669 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 19.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly mitigates CVE-2024-57669 by identifying, patching, and verifying the fix for the directory traversal flaw in BackupController.java as provided in the referenced commit.
Validates untrusted inputs to the BackupController endpoint to block directory traversal payloads such as '../' sequences.
Restricts backup file path inputs to predefined safe directories, preventing traversal to arbitrary sensitive files readable by the application process.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Directory traversal in public-facing web plugin directly enables remote unauthenticated file access (T1190) to read arbitrary local files (T1005) including via directory enumeration (T1083).
NVD Description
Directory Traversal vulnerability in Zrlog backup-sql-file.jar v.3.0.31 allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information via the BackupController.java file.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2024-57669 is a Directory Traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) in the Zrlog backup-sql-file.jar plugin version 3.0.31. The flaw exists in the BackupController.java file and enables a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. Published on 2025-02-03, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N), indicating high confidentiality impact with no requirements for privileges or user interaction.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability over the network with low complexity. By crafting malicious requests to the affected BackupController endpoint, the attacker traverses directories to access and disclose sensitive files on the server, potentially exposing configuration data, database contents, or other arbitrary files readable by the application process.
Mitigation is addressed in a patch commit (32bdb36e6cc4f0b72e1ba85ef4458fb980946ea4) in the zrlog-plugin-backup-sql-file repository at https://github.com/94fzb/zrlog-plugin-backup-sql-file/commit/32bdb36e6cc4f0b72e1ba85ef4458fb980946ea4. Further details appear in Zrlog issue #193 (https://github.com/94fzb/zrlog/issues/193) and a vulnerable research repository (https://github.com/HypeDuke/vulnerable-research/blob/main/CVE-2024-57669). Security practitioners should update to the patched version and review access controls on backup endpoints.
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