CVE-2021-32825

LOW

bblfshd < 2021-08-11 - Path Traversal and Arbitrary File Write via Unsafe Symbolic Link Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

bblfshd is an open source self-hosted server for source code parsing. In bblfshd before commit 4265465b9b6fb5663c30ee43806126012066aad4 there is a "zipslip" vulnerability. The unsafe handling of symbolic links in an unpacking routine may enable attackers to read and/or write to arbitrary locations outside the designated target folder. This issue may lead to arbitrary file write (with same permissions as the program running the unpack operation) if the attacker can control the archive file. Additionally, if the attacker has read access to the unpacked files, he may be able to read arbitrary system files the parent process has permissions to read. For more details including a PoC see the referenced GHSL-2020-258.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-258-zipslip-bblfshd/
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/bblfsh/bblfshd/pull/341

Scores

CVSS v3 2.7
EPSS 0.0092
EPSS Percentile 55.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-23 CWE-59
Status published
Products (1)
bblfshd_project/bblfshd < 2021-08-11
Published Aug 16, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026