# CVE-2024-52600: Statamic CMS has Path Traversal in Asset Upload

- Also known as: GHSA-P7F6-8MCM-FWV3
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.17.0
- Published: 2024-11-19 · Updated: 2024-12-03

## Affected

- statamic cms: fixed in 5.17.0
- statamic/cms (Packagist): fixed in 5.17.0

## Description

Statmatic is a Laravel and Git powered content management system (CMS). Prior to version 5.17.0, assets uploaded with appropriately crafted filenames may result in them being placed in a location different than what was configured. The issue affects front-end forms with `assets` fields and other places where assets can be uploaded, although users would need upload permissions anyway. Files can be uploaded so they would be located on the server in a different location, and potentially override existing files. Traversal outside an asset container is not possible. This path traversal vulnerability has been fixed in 5.17.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on statamic cms, statamic/cms, upgrade to a fixed version (5.17.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/statamic/cms/security/advisories/GHSA-p7f6-8mcm-fwv3
- https://github.com/statamic/cms/commit/0c07c10009a2439c8ee56c8faefd1319dc6e388d
- https://github.com/statamic/cms/commit/400875b20f40e1343699d536a432a6fc284346da
- https://github.com/statamic/cms/commit/4cc2c9bd0f39a93b3fc7e9ef0f12792576fd380d

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