CVE-2024-32982 Information

Description

Litestar and Starlite is an Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface (ASGI) framework. Prior to 2.8.3 2.7.2 and 2.6.4 a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability has been discovered in the static file serving component of LiteStar. This vulnerability allows attackers to exploit path traversal flaws enabling unauthorized access to sensitive files outside the designated directories. Such access can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information or potentially compromise the server. The vulnerability is located in the file path handling mechanism within the static content serving function specifically at litestar/static_files/base.py. This vulnerability is fixed in versions 2.8.3 2.7.2 and 2.6.4.

Reference

https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/security/advisories/GHSA-83pv-qr33-2vcf https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/commit/57e706e7effdc182fc9a2af5981bc88afb21851b https://github.com/litestar-org/litestar/blob/main/litestar/static_files/base.py#L70