# CVE-2024-46987

Camaleon CMS is a dynamic and advanced content management system based on Ruby on Rails. A path traversal vulnerability accessible via MediaController's download_private_file method allows authenticated users to download any file on the web server Camaleon CMS is running on (depending on the file permissions). This issue may lead to Information Disclosure. This issue has been addressed in release version 2.8.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

- Page: https://www.vulneraibility.com/cve/CVE-2024-46987
- CVSS: 7.7
- Known exploited: not in CISA KEV as of our last sync
- EPSS: 14.56% (percentile 96.7)
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB · 1 Metasploit module · 10 GitHub proofs of concept (first 2026-02-01)
- CISA SSVC: exploitation poc, automatable no, technical impact partial (assessed 2024-09-18)
- Weakness: CWE-200, CWE-22
- Published: 2024-09-18

## Affected versions

- owen2345 camaleon-cms: affected < 2.8.2

A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected.

## References

- [other] https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-cp65-5m9r-vc2c
- [other] https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injection
- [other] https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal
- [other] https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-182_GHSL-2024-186_Camaleon_CMS
- [other] https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1exwtdm/camaleon_cms_281_has_been_released

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