CVE-2024-31214
Traccar versions 5.1 through 5.12 allow arbitrary files to be uploaded through the device image upload API.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 17.6%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. Traccar versions 5.1 through 5.12 allow arbitrary files to be uploaded through the device image upload API. Attackers have full control over the file contents, full control over the directory where the file is stored, full control over the file extension, and partial control over the file name. While it's not for an attacker to overwrite an existing file, an attacker can create new files with certain names and attacker-controlled extensions anywhere on the file system. This can potentially lead to remote code execution, XSS, DOS, etc. The default install of Traccar makes this vulnerability more severe. Self-registration is enabled by default, allowing anyone to create an account to exploit this vulnerability. Traccar also runs by default with root/system privileges, allowing files to be placed anywhere on the file system. Version 6.0 contains a fix for the issue. One may also turn off self-registration by default, as that would make most vulnerabilities in the application much harder to exploit by default and reduce the severity considerably.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.6 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 17.63% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-434
- Affected
- traccar/traccar
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 17.6% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/blob/master/src/main/java/org/traccar/model/Device.java#L56Product
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/blob/v5.12/src/main/java/org/traccar/api/resource/DeviceResource.java#L191Product
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/commit/3fbdcd81566bc72e319ec05c77cf8a4120b87b8fPatch
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/security/advisories/GHSA-3gxq-f2qj-c8v9Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/blob/master/src/main/java/org/traccar/model/Device.java#L56Product
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/blob/v5.12/src/main/java/org/traccar/api/resource/DeviceResource.java#L191Product
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/commit/3fbdcd81566bc72e319ec05c77cf8a4120b87b8fPatch
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/security/advisories/GHSA-3gxq-f2qj-c8v9Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.