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Privileged User using traversal to read system files

Type: advisorySources: OSV

A user who is privileged already `manager` or `admin` can set their profile picture via the frontend API using a relative filepath to then user the PFP GET API to download any valid files. The attacker would have to have been granted privileged permissions to the system before executing this attack.

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CVEs
CVE-2024-0550
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3 Nov 2026, 03:58 UTC · Revision 1

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Privileged User using traversal to read system files

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Feb 2024, 04:52 UTC

A user who is privileged already `manager` or `admin` can set their profile picture via the frontend API using a relative filepath to then user the PFP GET API to download any valid files. The attacker would have to have been granted privileged permissions to the system before executing this attack.

osv:CVE-2024-0550
Complete source record
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