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ghsa-8q24-hc9h-h952

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-03-20 12:32

Modified

2025-03-20 12:32

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

GPT Academic version 3.83 is vulnerable to a Local File Read (LFI) vulnerability through its HotReload function. This function can download and extract tar.gz files from arxiv.org. Despite implementing protections against path traversal, the application overlooks the Tarslip triggered by symlinks. This oversight allows attackers to read arbitrary local files from the victim server.

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CVE-2024-10986 (GCVE-0-2024-10986)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-03-20 10:10

Modified

2025-03-20 18:15

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

Summary

GPT Academic version 3.83 is vulnerable to a Local File Read (LFI) vulnerability through its HotReload function. This function can download and extract tar.gz files from arxiv.org. Despite implementing protections against path traversal, the application overlooks the Tarslip triggered by symlinks. This oversight allows attackers to read arbitrary local files from the victim server.

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	binary-husky	binary-husky/gpt_academic	Version: unspecified <

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