CVE-2024-24569 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-24569: `ZipSecurity#isBelowCurrentDirectory` is vulnerable to partial-path traversal vulnerability

Vendor Pixee
Product java-security-toolkit
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published February 1, 2024
Last update June 17, 2025

CVSS base score

5.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

The Pixee Java Code Security Toolkit is a set of security APIs meant to help secure Java code. `ZipSecurity#isBelowCurrentDirectory` is vulnerable to a partial-path traversal bypass. To be vulnerable to the bypass, the application must use toolkit version <=1.1.1, use ZipSecurity as a guard against path traversal, and have an exploit path. Although the control still protects attackers from escaping the application path into higher level directories (e.g., /etc/), it will allow "escaping" into sibling paths. For example, if your running path is /my/app/path you an attacker could navigate into /my/app/path-something-else. This vulnerability is patched in 1.1.2.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 1, 2024 CVE published
June 17, 2025 Record updated