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Directory Traversal vulnerability in Square Retrofit

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 21, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

maven com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.5.0

Patched versions

2.5.0

Description

Square Retrofit versions from (including) 2.0 to 2.5.0 (excluding) contain a Directory Traversal vulnerability in RequestBuilder class, method addPathParameter. By manipulating the URL an attacker could add or delete resources otherwise unavailable to her. This attack appears to be exploitable via an encoded path parameter on POST, PUT or DELETE request. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.5.0 and later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 21, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000850

GHSA ID

GHSA-8p8g-f9vg-r7xr

Source code

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