Arbitrary File Upload and Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in MinDoc

CVE-2018-19114 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

An issue was discovered in MinDoc through v1.0.2. It allows attackers to gain privileges by uploading an image file with contents that represent an admin session, and then sending a Cookie: header with a mindoc_id value containing the relative pathname of this uploaded file. For example, the mindoc_id (aka session ID) could be of the form aa/../../uploads/blog/201811/attach_#.jpg where '#' is a hex value displayed in the upload field of a manage/blogs/edit/ screen.

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