CVE-2017-14196

high

Published 2017-11-30 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

An issue was discovered in Squiz Matrix from 5.3 through to 5.3.6.1 and 5.4.1.3. An information disclosure caused by a Path Traversal issue in the 'File Bridge' plugin allowed the existence of files outside of the bridged path to be confirmed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
squiz	matrix	`{"startIncluding":"5.3.0.0","endIncluding":"5.3.6.1"}`
squiz	matrix	`5.4.1.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.