CVE-2022-4510 (GCVE-0-2022-4510)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-25 12:25 – Updated: 2025-12-16 09:06
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Title
Path Traversal in binwalk
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability was identified in ReFirm Labs binwalk from version 2.1.2b through 2.3.3 included. By crafting a malicious PFS filesystem file, an attacker can get binwalk's PFS extractor to extract files at arbitrary locations when binwalk is run in extraction mode (-e option). Remote code execution can be achieved by building a PFS filesystem that, upon extraction, would extract a malicious binwalk module into the folder .config/binwalk/plugins. This vulnerability is associated with program files src/binwalk/plugins/unpfs.py. This issue affects binwalk from 2.1.2b through 2.3.3 included.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Refirm Labs binwalk Affected: 2.1.2b , ≤ 2.3.3 (2.1.2b)
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Credits
Quentin Kaiser from ONEKEY Research Labs
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