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GHSA-78f9-745f-278p

Published Aug 12, 2022·Last modified Mar 13, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

A partial Directory Traversal Vulnerability found in apoc.log.stream function of apoc plugins in Neo4j Graph database. This issue allows a malicious actor to potentially break out of the expected directory. The impact is limited to sibling directories. For example, userControlled.getCanonicalPath().startsWith("/usr/out") will allow an attacker to access a directory with a name like /usr/outnot.

Patches

The users should aim to use the latest released version compatible with their Neo4j version. The minimum versions containing patch for this vulnerability are 4.4.0.8 and 4.3.0.7

Workarounds

If you cannot upgrade the library, you can control the allowlist of the functions that can be used in your system

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Credits

We want to publicly recognise the contribution of Jonathan Leitschuh for reporting this issue.

Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
1.26%

The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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