CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedFluentd versions prior to 1.19.3 are vulnerable due to insufficient validation of the ${tag} placeholder in file configurations, allowing attackers to exploit path traversal vulnerabilities. This can lead to arbitrary file writing or overwriting, potentially enabling remote code execution. Organizations using Fluentd for data collection and processing should prioritize upgrading to version 1.19.3 or later to mitigate this critical risk.
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Original NVD Description
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Prior to 1.19.3, Fluentd allows dynamically constructing file paths using the ${tag} placeholder, and insufficient validation of ${tag} in file configurations such as the path parameter of the out_file plugin allows attackers sending untrusted tags containing path traversal characters to write or overwrite arbitrary files and potentially achieve remote code execution. This issue is fixed in version 1.19.3.
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