Path Traversal in Altium Vault ScriptsController Allows Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Two endpoints in the Vault Service ScriptsController, shared by Altium Enterprise Server and Altium 365, accept file uploads where a user-supplied filename component is used to construct the destination path without validation, allowing arbitrary files to be written to any location writable by the service account. Because the file write operation completes before authentication is validated, the vulnerability can be exploited without any credentials, session, or prior knowledge of the system.
An unauthenticated network attacker can use this primitive to place executable content in directories where it is later executed by the service, resulting in remote code execution under the Vault Service account. Altium Enterprise Server is fixed in 8.1.1; the issue has been remediated in Altium 365 (commercial and government cloud) at the service level.
Problem Types
| Type | CWE ID | Description |
|---|
| CWE | CWE-22 | CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') |
| CWE | CWE-306 | CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function |
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Type: CWE
Description: CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Metrics
| Version | Base score | Base severity | Vector |
|---|
| 4.0 | 10.0 | CRITICAL | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
Version: 4.0
Base score: 10.0
Base severity: CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Impacts
| CAPEC ID | Description |
|---|
| CAPEC-126 | CAPEC-126 Path Traversal |
| CAPEC-115 | CAPEC-115 Authentication Bypass |
Description: CAPEC-126 Path Traversal
Description: CAPEC-115 Authentication Bypass