Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (Zip Slip) Affecting org.nd4j:nd4j-common package, versions [,1.0.0-beta3)


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10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGND4J-72550
  • published31 Oct 2018
  • disclosed24 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Oct 2018

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.nd4j:nd4j-common to version 1.0.0-beta3 or higher.

Overview

org.nd4j:nd4j-common is a Deeplearning4j, ND4J, DataVec and more - deep learning & linear algebra for Java/Scala with GPUs + Spark - From Skymind.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Write via Archive Extraction (AKA "Zip Slip").

Details

It is exploited using a specially crafted zip archive, that holds path traversal filenames. When exploited, a filename in a malicious archive is concatenated to the target extraction directory, which results in the final path ending up outside of the target folder. For instance, a zip may hold a file with a "../../file.exe" location and thus break out of the target folder. If an executable or a configuration file is overwritten with a file containing malicious code, the problem can turn into an arbitrary code execution issue quite easily.

The following is an example of a zip archive with one benign file and one malicious file. Extracting the malicous file will result in traversing out of the target folder, ending up in /root/.ssh/ overwriting the authorized_keys file:


+2018-04-15 22:04:29 ..... 19 19 good.txt

+2018-04-15 22:04:42 ..... 20 20 ../../../../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys

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