CVE-2024-46987 PoC — Arbitrary path traversal in Camaleon CMS

Source

https://github.com/Goultarde/CVE-2024-46987

Associated Vulnerability

Title: Arbitrary path traversal in Camaleon CMS (CVE-2024-46987)
Description:Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails. A path traversal vulnerability accessible via MediaController's download_private_file method allows authenticated users to download any file on the web server Camaleon CMS is running on (depending on the file permissions). This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.8.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Description

This Python PoC exploits CVE-2024-46987, a Path Traversal bug in Camaleon CMS 2.8.0 < 2.8.2  (work on 2.9.0). It allows authenticated users to read sensitive server files via the MediaController. Intended for authorized security auditing and educational research only.

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