GHSA-W4QQ-74H6-58WQ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-19 16:25 – Updated: 2026-05-19 16:25Summary
The endpoint requires no authentication. An unauthenticated remote attacker can read arbitrary image files anywhere on disk that the PHP user can open — including private user-profile photos that the application's normal serving wrappers gate behind ACLs, admin-uploaded thumbnails, encrypted-video poster frames, and image content under sibling-app directories reachable via .. traversal.
Details
view/img/image404Raw.php reads the image GET parameter and joins it directly into a filesystem path served via readfile(). view/img/image404Raw.php (full file, current master @ 0dbadbcaaa1b415c7db078a72dc4b26d9fac0485):
<?php
// Fetch requested image URL
$imageURL = !empty($_GET['image']) ? $_GET['image'] : $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
$rootDir = dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../';
if ($imageURL == 'favicon.ico') {
$imgLocalFile = "{$rootDir}/videos/{$imageURL}";
} else {
$imgLocalFile = "{$rootDir}/{$imageURL}"; // ← attacker-controlled
}
if (file_exists($imgLocalFile)) {
$imageInfo = getimagesize($imgLocalFile); // ← format gate
if (empty($imageInfo)) {
die('not image');
}
// …extension → Content-Type mapping…
header("HTTP/1.0 200 OK");
header('Content-Type: ' . $type);
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($imgLocalFile));
readfile($imgLocalFile); // ← exfil bytes
exit;
}
Issues:
- No authentication. The file is reachable via direct GET; no
requireofglobals.php, no session check, no API-key gate. - No basename / realpath / prefix containment.
$_GET['image']is concatenated into$imgLocalFilewith no..filtering, norealpath()resolution, no allowlist check against the intendedview/img/directory. getimagesize()is a magic-bytes check, not a path constraint. Any file on disk whose first bytes match a recognized image format (FFD8FFJPEG,89504E47PNG,474946GIF,52494646…57454250WebP) passes the gate — including images stored outside any ACL'd area of the application.$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]fallback whenimageis empty widens the attack surface (path components in the URI itself land in$imgLocalFile).
Re-verified pre-submission on 2026-05-13 against view/img/image404Raw.php blob SHA c670b0faff4fbea1fd0508f179956975477d4340 — unsafe shape unchanged since first discovery on 2026-05-12.
Recommended fix — three layered checks, any one alone is insufficient:
// view/img/image404Raw.php — proposed fix
<?php
$imageURL = !empty($_GET['image']) ? $_GET['image'] : '';
if ($imageURL === '') {
http_response_code(400);
exit('bad request');
}
// 1. Reject any path-traversal segment outright.
if (strpos($imageURL, '..') !== false
|| strpos($imageURL, "\0") !== false
|| strpos($imageURL, '://') !== false) {
http_response_code(400);
exit('bad request');
}
// 2. Resolve to a real path and verify prefix containment under the
// intended image directory.
$rootDir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../');
$imgLocalFile = realpath($rootDir . '/' . $imageURL);
if ($imgLocalFile === false
|| (strpos($imgLocalFile, $rootDir . '/videos/') !== 0
&& strpos($imgLocalFile, $rootDir . '/view/img/') !== 0)) {
http_response_code(404);
exit('not found');
}
// 3. Existing getimagesize() check stays as defense-in-depth.
if (!is_file($imgLocalFile)) {
http_response_code(404);
exit('not found');
}
$imageInfo = @getimagesize($imgLocalFile);
if (empty($imageInfo)) {
http_response_code(404);
exit('not image');
}
// …rest of the original Content-Type + readfile() flow unchanged…
Drop the $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] fallback entirely; if no image
parameter is provided, return 400.
PoC
Discovery probe — any HTTP client, no authentication, no cookies:
GET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: avideo.example.com
If videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg exists on the server, the response is the raw image bytes (HTTP 200, Content-Type: image/jpeg). The application's normal user-photo serving wrapper (which can gate by session / channel ownership) is bypassed entirely.
Cross-directory probe — read images outside the AVideo install root:
GET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../../../var/www/other-app/uploads/users/admin.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: avideo.example.com
If the PHP user has read access to a sibling app's image directory, those files are exfiltrable too.
Enumeration — iterate over predictable numeric IDs:
GET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg
GET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo2.jpg
GET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo3.jpg
...
…to harvest all profile images regardless of the application's intended privacy controls.
Impact
Path traversal → arbitrary image read (CWE-22 + CWE-284). Affects any AVideo deployment running master through commit 0dbadbca and likely every release on the supported branches. The attacker:
- Bypasses the application's image-content ACLs. Profile photos under
videos/userPhoto/and admin-uploaded private thumbnails that AVideo's normal image-serving wrappers gate by session / channel ownership become readable to any anonymous internet user. - Reads images stored outside the AVideo install root. On shared-hosting / multi-tenant deployments,
..traversal lets the attacker page into sibling-app upload directories — anywhere the PHP user has read access on disk and the target file's first bytes form a valid image header. - Enables enumeration at scale. Numeric ID schemes (
photo1.jpg,photo2.jpg, …) and predictable filenames let an attacker harvest every private image on a deployment without detection (each request looks like a single 200-image-OK to the web log).
Because the read primitive is restricted to image-magic-bytes files, there is no source-code or credential exfiltration via this primitive alone — but the privacy / GDPR exposure is substantial on any deployment that hosts user-uploaded photos. CVSS 5.3 (Medium) reflects the limited but real confidentiality impact; many operators will rate this higher because the leaked content is user-private by intent.
This is not a silent-fix disclosure — the bug is still present on current master at submission time; the maintainer is being
notified of a previously-unknown issue.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "Packagist",
"name": "WWBN/AVideo"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "29.0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-46337"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22",
"CWE-284",
"CWE-862"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2026-05-19T16:25:27Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "### Summary\nThe endpoint requires **no authentication**. An unauthenticated remote attacker can read arbitrary image files anywhere on disk that the PHP user can open \u2014 including private user-profile photos that the application\u0027s normal serving wrappers gate behind ACLs, admin-uploaded thumbnails, encrypted-video poster frames, and image content under sibling-app directories reachable via `..` traversal.\n\n### Details\n`view/img/image404Raw.php` reads the `image` GET parameter and joins it directly into a filesystem path served via `readfile()`. `view/img/image404Raw.php` (full file, current `master` @ `0dbadbcaaa1b415c7db078a72dc4b26d9fac0485`):\n\n```php\n\u003c?php\n\n// Fetch requested image URL\n$imageURL = !empty($_GET[\u0027image\u0027]) ? $_GET[\u0027image\u0027] : $_SERVER[\"REQUEST_URI\"];\n$rootDir = dirname(__FILE__) . \u0027/../../\u0027;\nif ($imageURL == \u0027favicon.ico\u0027) {\n $imgLocalFile = \"{$rootDir}/videos/{$imageURL}\";\n} else {\n $imgLocalFile = \"{$rootDir}/{$imageURL}\"; // \u2190 attacker-controlled\n}\n\nif (file_exists($imgLocalFile)) {\n $imageInfo = getimagesize($imgLocalFile); // \u2190 format gate\n if (empty($imageInfo)) {\n die(\u0027not image\u0027);\n }\n // \u2026extension \u2192 Content-Type mapping\u2026\n header(\"HTTP/1.0 200 OK\");\n header(\u0027Content-Type: \u0027 . $type);\n header(\u0027Content-Length: \u0027 . filesize($imgLocalFile));\n readfile($imgLocalFile); // \u2190 exfil bytes\n exit;\n}\n```\n\nIssues:\n\n1. **No authentication.** The file is reachable via direct GET; no `require` of `globals.php`, no session check, no API-key gate.\n2. **No basename / realpath / prefix containment.** `$_GET[\u0027image\u0027]` is concatenated into `$imgLocalFile` with no `..` filtering, no `realpath()` resolution, no allowlist check against the intended `view/img/` directory.\n3. **`getimagesize()` is a magic-bytes check, not a path constraint.** Any file on disk whose first bytes match a recognized image format (`FFD8FF` JPEG, `89504E47` PNG, `474946` GIF, `52494646\u202657454250` WebP) passes the gate \u2014 including images stored outside any ACL\u0027d area of the application.\n4. **`$_SERVER[\"REQUEST_URI\"]` fallback** when `image` is empty widens the attack surface (path components in the URI itself land in `$imgLocalFile`).\n\n**Re-verified pre-submission** on 2026-05-13 against `view/img/image404Raw.php` blob SHA `c670b0faff4fbea1fd0508f179956975477d4340` \u2014 unsafe shape unchanged since first discovery on 2026-05-12.\n\n**Recommended fix** \u2014 three layered checks, any one alone is insufficient:\n\n```php\n// view/img/image404Raw.php \u2014 proposed fix\n\u003c?php\n\n$imageURL = !empty($_GET[\u0027image\u0027]) ? $_GET[\u0027image\u0027] : \u0027\u0027;\nif ($imageURL === \u0027\u0027) {\n http_response_code(400);\n exit(\u0027bad request\u0027);\n}\n\n// 1. Reject any path-traversal segment outright.\nif (strpos($imageURL, \u0027..\u0027) !== false\n || strpos($imageURL, \"\\0\") !== false\n || strpos($imageURL, \u0027://\u0027) !== false) {\n http_response_code(400);\n exit(\u0027bad request\u0027);\n}\n\n// 2. Resolve to a real path and verify prefix containment under the\n// intended image directory.\n$rootDir = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . \u0027/../../\u0027);\n$imgLocalFile = realpath($rootDir . \u0027/\u0027 . $imageURL);\nif ($imgLocalFile === false\n || (strpos($imgLocalFile, $rootDir . \u0027/videos/\u0027) !== 0\n \u0026\u0026 strpos($imgLocalFile, $rootDir . \u0027/view/img/\u0027) !== 0)) {\n http_response_code(404);\n exit(\u0027not found\u0027);\n}\n\n// 3. Existing getimagesize() check stays as defense-in-depth.\nif (!is_file($imgLocalFile)) {\n http_response_code(404);\n exit(\u0027not found\u0027);\n}\n$imageInfo = @getimagesize($imgLocalFile);\nif (empty($imageInfo)) {\n http_response_code(404);\n exit(\u0027not image\u0027);\n}\n\n// \u2026rest of the original Content-Type + readfile() flow unchanged\u2026\n```\n\nDrop the `$_SERVER[\"REQUEST_URI\"]` fallback entirely; if no `image`\nparameter is provided, return 400.\n\n### PoC\n\nDiscovery probe \u2014 any HTTP client, no authentication, no cookies:\n\n```http\nGET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg HTTP/1.1\nHost: avideo.example.com\n```\n\nIf `videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg` exists on the server, the response is the raw image bytes (HTTP 200, `Content-Type: image/jpeg`). The application\u0027s normal user-photo serving wrapper (which can gate by session / channel ownership) is bypassed entirely.\n\nCross-directory probe \u2014 read images outside the AVideo install root:\n\n```http\nGET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../../../var/www/other-app/uploads/users/admin.jpg HTTP/1.1\nHost: avideo.example.com\n```\n\nIf the PHP user has read access to a sibling app\u0027s image directory, those files are exfiltrable too.\n\nEnumeration \u2014 iterate over predictable numeric IDs:\n\n```\nGET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo1.jpg\nGET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo2.jpg\nGET /view/img/image404Raw.php?image=../videos/userPhoto/photo3.jpg\n...\n```\n\n\u2026to harvest all profile images regardless of the application\u0027s intended privacy controls.\n\n### Impact\n\n**Path traversal \u2192 arbitrary image read (CWE-22 + CWE-284).** Affects any AVideo deployment running master through commit `0dbadbca` and likely every release on the supported branches. The attacker:\n\n1. **Bypasses the application\u0027s image-content ACLs.** Profile photos under `videos/userPhoto/` and admin-uploaded private thumbnails that AVideo\u0027s normal image-serving wrappers gate by session / channel ownership become readable to any anonymous internet user.\n2. **Reads images stored outside the AVideo install root.** On shared-hosting / multi-tenant deployments, `..` traversal lets the attacker page into sibling-app upload directories \u2014 anywhere the PHP user has read access on disk and the target file\u0027s first bytes form a valid image header.\n3. **Enables enumeration at scale.** Numeric ID schemes (`photo1.jpg`, `photo2.jpg`, \u2026) and predictable filenames let an attacker harvest every private image on a deployment without detection (each request looks like a single 200-image-OK to the web log).\n\nBecause the read primitive is restricted to image-magic-bytes files, there is no source-code or credential exfiltration via this primitive alone \u2014 but the **privacy / GDPR exposure** is substantial on any deployment that hosts user-uploaded photos. CVSS 5.3 (Medium) reflects the limited but real confidentiality impact; many operators will rate this higher because the leaked content is user-private by intent.\n\nThis is **not** a silent-fix disclosure \u2014 the bug is still present on current `master` at submission time; the maintainer is being\nnotified of a previously-unknown issue.",
"id": "GHSA-w4qq-74h6-58wq",
"modified": "2026-05-19T16:25:27Z",
"published": "2026-05-19T16:25:27Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo/security/advisories/GHSA-w4qq-74h6-58wq"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/WWBN/AVideo"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "AVideo: Unauthenticated Arbitrary Image Read via Path Traversal in `view/img/image404Raw.php`"
}
Sightings
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