CVE-2022-36065

HIGH

growthbook < 1.6.0 - Unauthenticated Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution via File Upload

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

GrowthBook is an open-source platform for feature flagging and A/B testing. With some self-hosted configurations in versions prior to 2022-08-29, attackers can register new accounts and upload files to arbitrary directories within the container. If the attacker uploads a Python script to the right location, they can execute arbitrary code within the container. To be affected, ALL of the following must be true: Self-hosted deployment (GrowthBook Cloud is unaffected); using local file uploads (as opposed to S3 or Google Cloud Storage); NODE_ENV set to a non-production value and JWT_SECRET set to an easily guessable string like `dev`. This issue is patched in commit 1a5edff8786d141161bf880c2fd9ccbe2850a264 (2022-08-29). As a workaround, set `JWT_SECRET` environment variable to a long random string. This will stop arbitrary file uploads, but the only way to stop attackers from registering accounts is by updating to the latest build.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/security/advisories/GHSA-j24q-55xh-wm4r
Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/growthbook/growthbook/pull/487

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0102
EPSS Percentile 58.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-22 CWE-24
Status published
Products (1)
growthbook/growthbook < 1.6.0
Published Sep 06, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026