CVE-2024-7631: Openshift-console: openshift console: path traversal

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-7631 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in console Go. EPSS estimates a 0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 19-03-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 03-09-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A flaw was found in the OpenShift Console, an endpoint for plugins to serve resources in multiple languages: /locales/resources.json. This endpoint's lng and ns parameters are used to construct a filepath in pkg/plugins/handlers unsafely.go#L112 Because of this unsafe filepath construction, an authenticated user can manipulate the path to retrieve any JSON files on the console's pod by using sequences of ../ and valid directory paths.

• CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted DirectoryThe 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.