5.6 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): Active (A)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): Active (A)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
Path Traversal in build/packages/packages.toml Allows Arbitrary Directory Deletion
Path traversal vulnerability in Gleam's dependency management allows arbitrary directory deletion via malicious build/packages/packages.toml content. Package keys read from build/packages/packages.toml by LocalPackages::read_from_disc are passed without validation to paths.build_packages_package(), which constructs a filesystem path by joining the project build directory with the attacker-controlled key. The resulting path is then passed to fs::delete_directory (which calls remove_dir_all). No check is performed to ensure the path remains within the intended build/packages/ directory. Both absolute paths and relative traversal sequences (e.g. ../) are accepted as package keys, allowing deletion of arbitrary directories. An attacker who can cause a victim to run gleam deps download on a project containing a malicious build/packages/packages.toml (e.g. by committing the normally-gitignored file to a repository) can cause arbitrary directories on the victim's system to be recursively deleted. This issue affects Gleam from 0.18.0-rc1 until 1.17.0.
References
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https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/security/advisories/GHSA-jqvf-f6p2-wrv3 relatedexploitvendor-advisory
Affected products
- <1.17.0
- <690ca069817bee5f77a28fc3e360627c1da19291
- <1.17.0
- <v1.17.0-erlang
- <v1.17.0-erlang-alpine
- <v1.17.0-elixir
- <v1.17.0-elixir-alpine
- <v1.17.0-elixir-slim
- <v1.17.0-node-slim
- <v1.17.0-scratch
- <v1.17.0-node-alpine
- <v1.17.0-erlang-slim
- <v1.17.0-node
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.gleam
Statically typed language for the Erlang VM
pkgs.vscode-extensions.gleam.gleam
Support for the Gleam programming language
pkgs.tree-sitter-grammars.tree-sitter-gleam
None
pkgs.vimPlugins.nvim-treesitter-parsers.gleam
None
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nixos-unstable 0.0.0+rev=0bb1b0a
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.0.0+rev=0bb1b0a
- nixos-unstable-small 0.0.0+rev=0bb1b0a
pkgs.python312Packages.tree-sitter-grammars.tree-sitter-gleam
Python bindings for tree-sitter-gleam
pkgs.python313Packages.tree-sitter-grammars.tree-sitter-gleam
Python bindings for tree-sitter-gleam
pkgs.python314Packages.tree-sitter-grammars.tree-sitter-gleam
Python bindings for tree-sitter-gleam
Package maintainers
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@mightyiam Shahar "Dawn" Or <mightyiampresence@gmail.com>
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@A-jay98 Ali Jamadi <ali@jamadi.me>
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@adfaure Adrien Faure <adfaure@pm.me>
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@stepbrobd Yifei Sun <ysun@hey.com>