GHSA-g54f-66mw-hv66
Agnai vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal in Image Upload
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
A vulnerability has been discovered in **Agnai** that permits attackers to upload image files at attacker-chosen location on the server. This issue can lead to image file uploads to unauthorized or unintended directories, including overwriting of existing images which may be used for defacement.
This does not affect:
- agnai.chat
- installations using S3-compatible storage
- self-hosting that is not publicly exposed
### CWE-35: Path Traversal
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/35.html
### CVSS4.0 - 2.3 Low
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
### Details
This is a path traversal vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted request to the `editCharacter` handler https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/75abbd5b0f5e48ddecc805365cf1574d05ee1ce5/srv/api/character.ts#L140:
```tsx
POST /api/character/28cbe508-2fa9-4890-886e-61d73e22006c%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%2e%2e%2f%61%70%70%2f%64%69%73%74%2f%64%61%6e%79%61%6e%67 HTTP/1.1
```
The path traversal character sequence makes it’s way into the `id` variable which is then string interpolated into `filename`.
```jsx
export async function entityUpload(kind: string, id: string, attachment?: Attachment) {
if (!attachment) return
const filename = `${kind}-${id}`
return upload(attachment, filename)
}
```
https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/75abbd5b0f5e48ddecc805365cf1574d05ee1ce5/srv/api/upload.ts#L55
No path normalization is conducted nor checked, so attackers can freely manipulate the path which the file is uploaded to.
### Impact
This vulnerability is classified as a path traversal vulnerability. Attackers can upload image files to arbitrary locations, potentially overwriting critical system image files.
### Credit
Security research in collaboration with Analyst [Danyang Liu (noe223)](https://github.com/noe233) @noe233
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/security/advisories/GHSA-g54f-66mw-hv66
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47171
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/75abbd5b0f5e48ddecc805365cf1574d05ee1ce5/srv/api/character.ts#L140:
- https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai/blob/75abbd5b0f5e48ddecc805365cf1574d05ee1ce5/srv/api/upload.ts#L55