Summary
Risesoft Digital-Infrastructure contains a path traversal vulnerability in the file retrieval handler. An unauthenticated attacker may use parent-directory segments in request parameters to read arbitrary files, potentially exposing database, Redis, and Nacos credentials when the endpoint is publicly reachable.
Risesoft Digital-Infrastructure contains a path traversal vulnerability in the file retrieval handler. An unauthenticated attacker may use parent-directory segments in request parameters to read arbitrary files, potentially exposing database, Redis, and Nacos credentials when the endpoint is publicly reachable.
Affected context
The vulnerability occurs in deployments using the Risesoft Digital-Infrastructure file manager and its unauthenticated /rest/retrieveFileStream endpoint. Risk increases when the fullPath and fileName parameters are combined without reliably constraining the resulting path to an approved storage directory, allowing requests to reach sensitive application or system files.
The vulnerability occurs in deployments using the Risesoft Digital-Infrastructure file manager and its unauthenticated /rest/retrieveFileStream endpoint. Risk increases when the fullPath and fileName parameters are combined without reliably constraining the resulting path to an approved storage directory, allowing requests to reach sensitive application or system files.
Exploit preconditions
- Attack surface: Network-accessible file retrieval endpoint
- Required access: No authentication may be required when the endpoint is exposed
- Trigger point: Processing of attacker-controlled
fullPathandfileNameparameters - Why exploitation is possible: Parent-directory segments can cause path resolution to escape the intended file storage location
- Attack surface: Network-accessible file retrieval endpoint
- Required access: No authentication may be required when the endpoint is exposed
- Trigger point: Processing of attacker-controlled
fullPathandfileNameparameters - Why exploitation is possible: Parent-directory segments can cause path resolution to escape the intended file storage location
Why this happens
The underlying bug is insufficient canonicalization and containment enforcement for user-controlled file paths. If path components are concatenated or resolved without verifying that the normalized result remains within an approved base directory, traversal sequences can reference files outside the intended resource tree. This behavior maps to CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
The underlying bug is insufficient canonicalization and containment enforcement for user-controlled file paths. If path components are concatenated or resolved without verifying that the normalized result remains within an approved base directory, traversal sequences can reference files outside the intended resource tree. This behavior maps to CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
Potential impact
- Sensitive configuration files may be disclosed
- Database, Redis, or Nacos credentials could be exposed
- Attackers may gain information useful for further compromise
- Application secrets and internal service details could be revealed
- Confidential business or user data may be read
- Sensitive configuration files may be disclosed
- Database, Redis, or Nacos credentials could be exposed
- Attackers may gain information useful for further compromise
- Application secrets and internal service details could be revealed
- Confidential business or user data may be read
General mitigation guidance
Mitigation generally focuses on enforcing a strict file access boundary and reducing trust in request-supplied path components.
Common defensive patterns include:
- Resolve and canonicalize paths before access decisions
- Verify that the normalized path remains within an approved base directory
- Prefer server-side file identifiers or allowlisted resource names over raw paths
- Reject traversal markers, encoded variants, and unexpected path separators as a secondary control
- Require authentication and authorization for file retrieval operations
- Avoid storing credentials and other high-value secrets in broadly readable application files
- Apply least-privilege permissions to service accounts and runtime processes
- Return generic errors without disclosing filesystem structure
Mitigation generally focuses on enforcing a strict file access boundary and reducing trust in request-supplied path components.
Common defensive patterns include:
- Resolve and canonicalize paths before access decisions
- Verify that the normalized path remains within an approved base directory
- Prefer server-side file identifiers or allowlisted resource names over raw paths
- Reject traversal markers, encoded variants, and unexpected path separators as a secondary control
- Require authentication and authorization for file retrieval operations
- Avoid storing credentials and other high-value secrets in broadly readable application files
- Apply least-privilege permissions to service accounts and runtime processes
- Return generic errors without disclosing filesystem structure
How teams detect issues like this
Organizations commonly detect path traversal risks through:
- Static analysis rules for concatenation of request parameters into filesystem paths
- Code review checks for canonicalization followed by containment validation
- Tests using encoded and mixed-separator traversal variants
- Web application firewall or gateway policies for suspicious path segments
- Monitoring for unauthenticated requests to file-download and retrieval endpoints
- Alerts for access to configuration files or paths outside approved storage directories
Automated security review tools can help identify unsafe path construction and missing authorization checks.
Organizations commonly detect path traversal risks through:
- Static analysis rules for concatenation of request parameters into filesystem paths
- Code review checks for canonicalization followed by containment validation
- Tests using encoded and mixed-separator traversal variants
- Web application firewall or gateway policies for suspicious path segments
- Monitoring for unauthenticated requests to file-download and retrieval endpoints
- Alerts for access to configuration files or paths outside approved storage directories
Automated security review tools can help identify unsafe path construction and missing authorization checks.
