CVE-2023-28465 – ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4b

Package

Manager: maven
Name: ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:org.hl7.fhir.r4b
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <5.6.106

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.0055 pctl0.67129

Details

HL7 FHIR Partial Path Zip Slip due to bypass of CVE-2023-24057 ### Impact Zip Slip protections implemented in CVE-2023-24057 (GHSA-jqh6-9574-5x22) can be bypassed due a partial path traversal vulnerability. This issue allows a malicious actor to potentially break out of the `TerminologyCacheManager` cache directory. The impact is limited to sibling directories. To demonstrate the vulnerability, consider `userControlled.getCanonicalPath().startsWith("/usr/out")` will allow an attacker to access a directory with a name like `/usr/outnot`. ### Why? To demonstrate this vulnerability, consider `"/usr/outnot".startsWith("/usr/out")`. The check is bypassed although `/outnot` is not under the `/out` directory. It's important to understand that the terminating slash may be removed when using various `String` representations of the `File` object. For example, on Linux, `println(new File("/var"))` will print `/var`, but `println(new File("/var", "/")` will print `/var/`; however, `println(new File("/var", "/").getCanonicalPath())` will print `/var`. ### The Fix Comparing paths with the `java.nio.files.Path#startsWith` will adequately protect againts this vulnerability. For example: `file.getCanonicalFile().toPath().startsWith(BASE_DIRECTORY)` or `file.getCanonicalFile().toPath().startsWith(BASE_DIRECTORY_FILE.getCanonicalFile().toPath())` ### Other Examples - [CVE-2022-31159](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/security/advisories/GHSA-c28r-hw5m-5gv3) - aws/aws-sdk-java - [CVE-2022-23457](https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-008_The_OWASP_Enterprise_Security_API/) - ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy ### Vulnerability https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/blob/b0daf666725fa14476d147522155af1e81922aac/org.hl7.fhir.r4b/src/main/java/org/hl7/fhir/r4b/terminologies/TerminologyCacheManager.java#L99-L105 While `getAbsolutePath` will return a normalized path, because the string `path` is not slash terminated, the guard can be bypassed to write the contents of the Zip file to a sibling directory of the cache directory. ### Patches All org.hl7.fhir.core libraries should be updated to 5.6.106. - https://github.com/hapifhir/org.hl7.fhir.core/pull/1162 ### Workarounds Unknown ### References * https://snyk.io/research/zip-slip-vulnerability

Metadata

Created: 2023-03-10T22:15:55Z
Modified: 2023-12-15T22:19:57Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2023/03/GHSA-9654-pr4f-gh6m/GHSA-9654-pr4f-gh6m.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-22"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-9654-pr4f-gh6m
Finding: F063
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