CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-29050
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-01-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
SphinxSearch in Sphinx Technologies Sphinx through 3.1.1 allows directory traversal (in conjunction with CVE-2019-14511) because the mysql client can be used for CALL SNIPPETS and load_file operations on a full pathname (e.g., a file in the /etc directory). NOTE: this is unrelated to CMUSphinx.
Affected configurations
• sphinxsearch sphinx (<= 3.1.1)
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29050 Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.wirhabenstil.de/2019/08/19/sphinxsearch-0-0-0-09306-cve-2019-14511/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00009.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-29050 Third Party Advisory