CVE-2022-23532CWE-22

neo4j-apoc-procedures is vulnerable to path traversal

High · published January 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

APOC (Awesome Procedures on Cypher) is an add-on library for Neo4j that provides hundreds of procedures and functions. A path traversal vulnerability found in the apoc.export.* procedures of apoc plugins in Neo4j Graph database. The issue allows a malicious actor to potentially break out of the expected directory. The vulnerability is such that files could only be created but not overwritten. For the vulnerability to be exploited, an attacker would need access to execute an arbitrary query, either by having access to an authenticated Neo4j client, or a Cypher injection vulnerability in an application. The minimum versions containing patch for this vulnerability are 4.4.0.12 and 4.3.0.12 and 5.3.1. As a workaround, you can control the allowlist of the procedures that can be used in your system, and/or turn off local file access by setting apoc.export.file.enabled=false.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00658 · 50.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2023-01-14T00:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 JAN 00:29Z
    neo4j-apoc-procedures is vulnerable to path traversal
    cvelistv5