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GHSA-M439-5W5W-F32V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-17 21:30 – Updated: 2025-03-17 21:30

Details

N-central is vulnerable to a path traversal that allows unintended access to the Apache Tomcat WEB-INF directory. Customer data is not exposed.

This vulnerability is present in all deployments of N-central prior to N-central 2024.6.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2024-8510 (GCVE-0-2024-8510)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-17 19:01 – Updated: 2025-03-18 14:41

Title

N-central Path Traversal

Summary

N-central is vulnerable to a path traversal that allows unintended access to the Apache Tomcat WEB-INF directory. Customer data is not exposed. This vulnerability is present in all deployments of N-central prior to N-central 2024.6.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-18 14:41 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal

Assigner

N-able CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 6 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://documentation.n-able.com/N-central/Releas…
https://me.n-able.com/s/security-advisory/aArVy00…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
N-able	N-central	Affected: 0 , < 2024.6 (date)

Date Public

2025-03-17 19:00

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