Vigil@nce - mbsync: directory traversal via Mailbox Name
May 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 04/03/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via Mailbox Name of mbsync,
in order to read a file outside the service root path.
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https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/mbsync-directory-traversal-via-Mailbox-Name-34747