# CVE-2024-49760: OpenRefine has a path traversal in LoadLanguageCommand

- Also known as: GHSA-QFWQ-6JH6-8XX4
- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.8.3
- Published: 2024-10-24 · Updated: 2024-10-25

## Affected

- OpenRefine: fixed in 3.8.3
- org.openrefine:openrefine (Maven): fixed in 3.8.3

## Description

OpenRefine is a free, open source tool for working with messy data. The load-language command expects a `lang` parameter from which it constructs the path of the localization file to load, of the form `translations-$LANG.json`. But when doing so in versions prior to 3.8.3, it does not check that the resulting path is in the expected directory, which means that this command could be exploited to read other JSON files on the file system. Version 3.8.3 addresses this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on OpenRefine, org.openrefine:openrefine, upgrade to a fixed version (3.8.3) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/security/advisories/GHSA-qfwq-6jh6-8xx4
- https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/commit/24d084052dc55426fe460f2a17524fd18d28b20c

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