Security Advisory

CVE-2023-40028

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-15 17:25:16
Last updated 2024-10-02 17:45:39
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

Ghost is an open source content management system. Versions prior to 5.59.1 are subject to a vulnerability which allows authenticated users to upload files that are symlinks. This can be exploited to perform an arbitrary file read of any file on the host operating system. Site administrators can check for exploitation of this issue by looking for unknown symlinks within Ghosts `content/` folder. Version 5.59.1 contains a fix for this issue. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.