# CVE-2024-48914: Vendure - Path Traversal

> Live exploitation tracking for CVE-2024-48914 by the CrowdSec Live Exploit Tracker, built from real-world attack data crowdsourced from CrowdSec's global network.

Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2024-48914

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Background Noise. Continuous low-level scanning or exploitation attempts are observed, mostly opportunistic and automated.
- **CVSS score:** 9.1
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** Vendure Ecommerce
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')); CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)
- **Tags:** ecommerce

## Description

Vendure is an open-source headless commerce platform. Prior to versions 3.0.5 and 2.3.3, a vulnerability in Vendure's asset server plugin allows an attacker to craft a request which is able to traverse the server file system and retrieve the contents of arbitrary files, including sensitive data such as configuration files, environment variables, and other critical data stored on the server. In the same code path is an additional vector for crashing the server via a malformed URI. Patches are available in versions 3.0.5 and 2.3.3. Some workarounds are also available. One may use object storage rather than the local file system, e.g. MinIO or S3, or define middleware which detects and blocks requests with urls containing `/../`.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2024-48914](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2024-48914) is a vulnerability in Vendure's asset server plugin that allows attackers to perform path traversal attacks, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive files on the server such as configuration files and environment variables. Additionally, a malformed URI can be used to crash the server, potentially leading to denial-of-service conditions. This flaw could be exploited to steal confidential data or disrupt e-commerce operations until patched in versions 3.0.5 and 2.3.3.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 25th of June 2025.

CrowdSec network data shows that most actors exploiting CVE-2024-48914 rely on broad, untargeted scans with minimal filtering. The activity is largely automated and opportunistic in nature.
Additionally, according to week-over-week analysis by CrowdSec, exploitation of CVE-2024-48914 is surging. Attack volumes are spiking well above historical norms, indicating widespread and escalating interest from threat actors. CVE-2024-48914 is currently experiencing high visibility and active exploitation across the internet.

Attackers exploit this vulnerability by sending requests to URLs containing `/assets/../` to traverse directories and read arbitrary files from the server, such as configuration files or sensitive data.

## Timeline

- 2024-10-15: CVE Published. CVE-2024-48914 is published to NVD.
- 2025-06-25: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2024-48914 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2025-06-25: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2024-48914 for the first time.

## References

- https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure/commit/e4b58af6822d38a9c92a1d8573e19288b8edaa1c
- https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure/security/advisories/GHSA-r9mq-3c9r-fmjq
- https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure/commit/e2ee0c43159b3d13b51b78654481094fdd4850c5
- https://github.com/vendure-ecommerce/vendure/blob/801980e8f599c28c5059657a9d85dd03e3827992/packages/asset-server-plugin/src/plugin.ts#L352-L358
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2024/CVE-2024-48914.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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