Ignite Realtime Openfire Path Traversal Vulnerability

A remote attacker, without authentication, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, partial data tampering, partial service disruption. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2023-09-14 under CISA BOD 22-01.

This is a Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Ignite Realtime Openfire. Openfire is an XMPP server licensed under the Open Source Apache License. Openfire's administrative console, a web-based application, was found to be vulnerable to a path traversal attack via the setup environment. This permitted an unauthenticated user to use the unauthenticated Openfire Setup Environment in an already configured Openfire environment to access restricted pages in the Openfire Admin Console reserved for administrative users. This vulnerability affects all versions of Openfire that have been released since April 2015, starting with version 3.10.0. The problem has been patched in Openfire release 4.7.5 and 4.6.8, and further improvements will be included in the yet-to-be released first version on the 4.8 branch (which is expected to be version 4.8.0). Users are advised to upgrade. If an Openfire upgrade isn’t available for a specific release, or isn’t quickly actionable, users may see the linked github advisory (GHSA-gw42-f939-fhvm) for mitigation advice. Exploitation requires remote network access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and no user interaction required.

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Active exploitation documented in the wild. Threat-research write-up: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173607/Openfire-Authentication-Bypass-Remote-Code-Execution.html