CVE-2024-52885: checkpoint check point mobile access Path Traversal: '.../...//'

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52885 is a medium (CVSS 5.4) Path Traversal: '.../...//' vulnerability in checkpoint check point mobile access. EPSS estimates a 0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 06-08-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The Mobile Access Portal's File Share application is vulnerable to a directory traversal attack, allowing an authenticated, malicious end-user (authorized to at least one File Share application) to list the file names of 'nobody'-accessible directories on the Mobile Access gateway.

• CWE-35Path Traversal: '.../...//'The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '.../...//' (doubled triple dot slash) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.