CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-8909
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-03-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
The Wire application before 2018-03-07 for Android allows attackers to write to pathnames outside of the downloads directory via a ../ in a filename of a received file, related to AssetService.scala.
Affected configurations
• wire wire (< 2018-03-07)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/reports/X41-Kudelski-Wire-Security-Review-Android.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/reports/X41-Kudelski-Wire-Security-Review-Android.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory