High
Security advisory
When accessing the heron-ui webpage, people can modify the file paths outside of the current container to access any file on the host. Example woule be modifying the parameter path= to go to the directory you would like to view. i.e. ..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-11789
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When accessing the heron-ui webpage, people can modify the file paths outside of the current container to access any file on the host. Example woule be modifying the parameter path= to go to the directory you would like to view. i.e. ..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd.
osv:CVE-2018-11789
Complete source record
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"id": "763ed3668cc26f4ec0b82df576da0eaa984d2b83a5155b315485590830532fc4",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-11789",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
"kind": "advisory",
"title": "CVE-2018-11789",
"summary": "When accessing the heron-ui webpage, people can modify the file paths outside of the current container to access any file on the host. Example woule be modifying the parameter path= to go to the directory you would like to view. i.e. ..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2018-11789",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
"structured": {
"id": "CVE-2018-11789",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-11789"
],
"metrics": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
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"type": "GIT",
"events": [
{
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},
{
"last_affected": "382240052b97e9e792d7ba2f35b9b5e4e4c15382"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"extracted_events": [
{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:heron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "0.13.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "0.17.8"
}
],
"source": "CPE_RANGE"
}
]
}
}
],
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-11789.json"
}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.982105144Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5ea1a102d87a47c5912d745fa0d5dfa2830fc94099cbc30911f095b9%40%3Cdev.heron.apache.org%3E"
],
"provider_metadata": {}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2018-11789",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429254,
"published_at": "2019-03-21T16:00:12.28+00:00"
}