GHSA-3mjv-375j-6h92 — WWBN/AVideo
MEDIUMGHSA-3mjv-375j-6h92 is a medium-severity (CVSS 4.9) Path Traversal vulnerability in WWBN/AVideo. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
AVideo: Authenticated Arbitrary File Read in view/update.php
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-3mjv-375j-6h92.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-3mjv-375j-6h92 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 380,526 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Real-World Exposure
WWBN/AVideoReal-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects Packagist packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.
Description
Summary
view/update.php reads $_POST['updateFile'] as a relative path under updatedb/ and passes it to PHP's file() for line-by-line execution as part of a database migration. An authenticated administrator can abuse this to read arbitrary text files reachable from the web-server process — especially valuable on misconfigured deployments where /etc/passwd, .env, or other sibling-app configs are reachable relative to the AVideo directory.
Details
view/update.php, lines 134-145 (excerpt):
if (!empty($_POST['updateFile'])) { $dir = Video::getStoragePath() . "cache"; rrmdir($dir); /* …unrelated cache-clear… */
if (file_exists($logfile . "log")) {
unlink($logfile . "log");
// ...
}
$lines = file("{$global['systemRootPath']}updatedb/{$_POST['updateFile']}");
The User::isAdmin() and adminSecurityCheck(true) guards at lines 12-15 enforce admin auth, but $_POST['updateFile'] is concatenated into a path without any sanitization. file() returns the file's contents as an array of lines; the script subsequently iterates them and echoes the SQL it would run.
PoC
POST /view/update.php Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
updateFile=../../../../etc/passwd Result: the script attempts to load /etc/passwd (relative to {systemRootPath}updatedb/), echoing each line in the migration-runner HTML output. $_POST['updateFile'] traversal accepted, no extension guard, no in-array whitelist.
Attempting ../../../../proc/self/environ similarly reveals web-server environment variables on Linux.
Impact
Verified on the current master branch of WWBN/AVideo (commit bc0340662…). Likely affected: every release where view/update.php contains the $_POST['updateFile'] consumer — pattern predates 2024.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | WWBN/AVideo | all versions | No fix |
Affected Products
avideowwbnDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for WWBN/AVideo, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Remediation status
No patched version of WWBN/AVideo has shipped for GHSA-3mjv-375j-6h92 yet. Where your build allows, override or pin the dependency away from the vulnerable range, and apply any maintainer-recommended mitigation.
Mitigate without a patch
Resolve every user-supplied path to its canonical form and reject anything that escapes the intended directory, and run the component under an account that has no read or write access outside the directory it legitimately serves.
Frequently Asked Questions
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