CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2023-40028
Medium (6.5) in ghost ghost. EPSS 69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ghost 5.59.1.
Ghost is an open source content management system. Versions prior to 5.59.1 are subject to a vulnerability which allows authenticated users to upload files that are symlinks. This can be exploited to perform an arbitrary file read of any file on the host operating system. Site administrators can check for exploitation of this issue by looking for unknown symlinks within Ghost's `content/` folder. Version 5.59.1 contains a fix for this issue. All users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
Severity
- EPSS
- 69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-59, CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ghost:ghost
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-9c9v-w225-v5rg | npm | ghost | <5.59.1 | 5.59.1 |
References
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/690fbf3f7302ff3f77159c0795928bdd20f41205
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-9c9v-w225-v5rg
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/commit/690fbf3f7302ff3f77159c0795928bdd20f41205
- https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/security/advisories/GHSA-9c9v-w225-v5rg