CVE-2025-53632
criticalpriority · attend · 46EPSS 0.008 · 57 %ileexploit · PoCEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Chall-Manager is a platform-agnostic system able to start Challenges on Demand of a player. When decoding a scenario (i.e. a zip archive), the path of the file to write is not checked, potentially leading to zip slips. Exploitation does not require authentication nor authorization, so anyone can exploit it. It should nonetheless not be exploitable as it is highly recommended to bury Chall-Manager deep within the infrastructure due to its large capabilities, so no users could reach the system. Patch has been implemented by commit 47d188f and shipped in v0.1.4.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.8–9.1
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exploits (1)
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affected products (3)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-3gv2-v3jx-r9fhChall-Manager is vulnerable to Path Traversal when extracting/decoding a zip archive2025-07-10ghsa · osvUS
### Impact When decoding a scenario (i.e. a zip archive), the path of the file to write is not checked, potentially leading to zip slips. Exploitation does not require authentication nor authorization, so anyone can exploit it. It should nonetheless not be exploitable as it is **highly** recommended to bury Chall-Manager deep within the infrastructure due to its large capabilities, so no users could reach the system. ### Patches Patch has been implemented by [commit `47d188f`](https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/commit/47d188fda5e3f86285e820f12ad9fb6f9930662c) and shipped in [`v0.1.4`](https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/releases/tag/v0.1.4). ### Workarounds No workaround exist. ### References N/A.
- GO-2025-3808Chall-Manager is vulnerable to Path Traversal when extracting/decoding a zip archive in github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager2025-07-28vendor · osvUS
Chall-Manager is vulnerable to Path Traversal when extracting/decoding a zip archive in github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager
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references (12)
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-53632cnnvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/commit/47d188fda5e3f86285e820f12ad9fb6f9930662ccnnvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/releasesPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/releases/tag/v0.1.4cnnvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/security/advisories/GHSA-3gv2-v3jx-r9fhcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53632cnnvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/commit/47d188fda5e3f86285e820f12ad9fb6f9930662cenisa_euvd
- https://github.com/ctfer-io/chall-manager/releases/tag/v0.1.4enisa_euvd
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