{"id":"CVE-2022-36007","aliases":["EUVD-2022-6481","GHSA-4mmh-5vw7-rgvj"],"status":"published","title":"Partial Path Traversal in com.github.jlangch:venice","description":"Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource \"test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.18, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00431,"percentile":0.37538,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":true,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-22"],"published":"2022-08-14T00:25:10Z","modified":"2026-10-28T10:27:23Z","exploits":[{"source":"pocgithub","id":"shoucheng3/jlangch__venice_CVE-2022-36007_1-10-16","title":"shoucheng3/jlangch__venice_CVE-2022-36007_1-10-16","date":"2025-08-20","url":"https://github.com/shoucheng3/jlangch__venice_CVE-2022-36007_1-10-16"}],"fixes":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","package":"com.github.jlangch:venice","fixed_in":["1.10.17"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"Maven","package":"com.github.jlangch:venice","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1.10.16"},{"fixed":"1.10.17"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"Maven","package":"com.github.jlangch:venice","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.10.17"}]}],"versions":["0.4.0","0.5.0","0.6.0","0.6.1","0.7.0","0.7.1","0.7.2","0.8.0","0.8.1","0.8.2","0.8.3","0.8.4","0.8.5","0.9.0","0.9.1","0.9.10","0.9.11","0.9.12","0.9.2","0.9.3","0.9.4","0.9.5","0.9.6","0.9.8","0.9.9","1.0.0","1.1.0","1.1.1","1.1.2","1.1.3","1.10.0","1.10.1","1.10.10","1.10.11","1.10.12","1.10.13","1.10.14","1.10.15","1.10.16","1.10.2","1.10.3","1.10.4","1.10.5","1.10.6","1.10.7","1.10.8","1.10.9","1.2.0","1.2.1","1.2.2","1.3.0","1.3.1","1.3.2","1.3.4","1.3.5","1.3.6","1.4.0","1.4.1","1.4.2","1.4.3","1.4.4","1.4.5","1.5.0","1.5.1","1.5.10","1.5.11","1.5.2","1.5.3","1.5.4","1.5.5","1.5.6","1.5.7","1.5.8","1.5.9","1.6.0","1.6.1","1.6.2","1.7.0","1.7.1","1.7.10","1.7.11","1.7.12","1.7.13","1.7.14","1.7.15","1.7.16","1.7.17","1.7.18","1.7.19","1.7.2","1.7.20","1.7.21","1.7.22","1.7.23","1.7.24","1.7.25","1.7.26","1.7.27","1.7.28","1.7.29","1.7.3","1.7.4","1.7.5","1.7.6","1.7.7","1.7.8","1.7.9","1.8.0","1.8.1","1.8.10","1.8.11","1.8.12","1.8.13","1.8.2","1.8.3","1.8.4","1.8.5","1.8.6","1.8.7","1.8.8","1.8.9","1.9.0","1.9.1","1.9.10","1.9.11","1.9.12","1.9.13","1.9.14","1.9.15","1.9.16","1.9.17","1.9.18","1.9.19","1.9.2","1.9.20","1.9.21","1.9.22","1.9.23","1.9.24","1.9.25","1.9.26","1.9.27","1.9.28","1.9.29","1.9.3","1.9.30","1.9.31","1.9.4","1.9.5","1.9.6","1.9.7","1.9.8","1.9.9"]}],"products":[{"vendor":"jlangch","product":"venice"},{"vendor":"venice_project","product":"venice"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/jlangch/venice/security/advisories/GHSA-4mmh-5vw7-rgvj","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Exploit","Third Party Advisory","advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/jlangch/venice/commit/215ae91bb964013b0a2d70718a692832d561ae0a","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/jlangch/venice/commit/c942c73136333bc493050910f171a48e6f575b23","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/jlangch/venice/releases/tag/v1.10.17","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Release Notes","Third Party Advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36007","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4mmh-5vw7-rgvj"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/36xxx/CVE-2022-36007.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/jlangch/venice","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2022-36007","title":"Partial Path Traversal in com.github.jlangch:venice","description":"Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource \"test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.18, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-14T00:25:10Z","modified":"2025-04-22T17:41:52.757Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:34:35.615708Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2022-6481","description":"Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource \"test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.18, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-14T00:25:10Z","modified":"2025-04-22T17:41:52Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T20:52:16.055056Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-4mmh-5vw7-rgvj","title":"Venice vulnerable to Partial Path Traversal issue within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`","description":"### Impact\r\nA partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths.\r\n\r\nAssuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` \r\n\r\nWhen passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine:\r\n`(load-resource \"test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\"\r\n`(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")`   =\u003e rejected, outside the load path\r\n\r\nWhen passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths:\r\n`(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\"\r\n`(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!!\r\nThe latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability.\r\n\r\nThis issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`.\r\n\r\nVersions of Venice before and including v1.10.16 are affected by this issue.\r\n\r\n### Patches\r\nUpgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.17, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.17\r\n\r\n### Workarounds\r\nIf you cannot upgrade the library, you can control the functions that can be used in Venice with a sandbox. If it is appropriate, the functions `load-file` and `load-resource` can be blacklisted in the sandbox.\r\n\r\n### References\r\n  * [PR](https://github.com/jlangch/venice/pull/4/commits/c942c73136333bc493050910f171a48e6f575b23)\r\n \r\n### For more information\r\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\r\n* Open an issue in [GitHub Venice](https://github.com/jlangch/venice)\r\n* Email us at [juerg.ch](mailto:juerg.ch@ggaweb.ch)\r\n\r\n### Credits\r\n\r\nI want to publicly recognize the contribution of [Jonathan Leitschuh](https://github.com/JLLeitschuh) for reporting this issue.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-18T19:07:58Z","modified":"2023-01-30T05:07:00Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:28.424013Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-36007","description":"Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource \"test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.18, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-15T11:21:40.967Z","modified":"2026-06-17T04:52:43.633Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"secondary"},{"version":"3.1","score":3.3,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N","level":"low","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:07:25.242752Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2022-36007","title":"Partial Path Traversal in com.github.jlangch:venice","description":"Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource \"test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\" `(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")` =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.18, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-14T00:25:10Z","modified":"2026-10-28T10:27:23.319192035Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:44:26.195407Z"},{"id":"GHSA-4mmh-5vw7-rgvj","title":"Venice vulnerable to Partial Path Traversal issue within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`","description":"### Impact\nA partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths.\n\nAssuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ \"/Users/foo/resources\" ]` \n\nWhen passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine:\n`(load-resource \"test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\"\n`(load-resource \"../resources-alt/test.png\")`   =\u003e rejected, outside the load path\n\nWhen passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths:\n`(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources/test.png\"\n`(load-resource \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\")`   =\u003e loads the file \"/Users/foo/resources-alt/test.png\" !!!\nThe latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability.\n\nThis issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `\"/Users/foo/resources\"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `\"/Users/foo/resources-alt\"`, but not from `\"/Users/foo/images\"`.\n\nVersions of Venice before and including v1.10.16 are affected by this issue.\n\n### Patches\nUpgrade to Venice \u003e= 1.10.17, if you are on a version \u003c 1.10.17\n\n### Workarounds\nIf you cannot upgrade the library, you can control the functions that can be used in Venice with a sandbox. If it is appropriate, the functions `load-file` and `load-resource` can be blacklisted in the sandbox.\n\n### References\n  * [PR](https://github.com/jlangch/venice/pull/4/commits/c942c73136333bc493050910f171a48e6f575b23)\n \n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Open an issue in [GitHub Venice](https://github.com/jlangch/venice)\n* Email us at [juerg.ch](mailto:juerg.ch@ggaweb.ch)\n\n### Credits\n\nI want to publicly recognize the contribution of [Jonathan Leitschuh](https://github.com/JLLeitschuh) for reporting this issue.","status":"published","published":"2022-08-18T19:07:58Z","modified":"2023-11-08T04:09:56.951434Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":6.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","level":"medium"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:37.148947Z"}]}}