# Camaleon CMS affected by arbitrary file write to RCE (GHSL-2024-182)

Advisory record · `GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5` · `CVE-2024-46986`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 10.0 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+, CVSS 7+ and EPSS
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-22](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html) · [CWE-74](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/74.html)
- **Tags:** [Path traversal](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/path-traversal.md) · [Other injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/injection.md)
- **Published:** 18 Sept 2024
- **Updated:** 17 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 18 Sept 2024, 14:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 10.0: 9.0 or more.
- CVSS score 10.0 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.37 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `camaleon_cms` (RubyGems): affected `>=2.8.0, <2.8.1`; fixed in `2.8.1`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 10.0 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.37, the 98th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 18 Sept 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5)
- [OSV: GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5)
- <https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/security/advisories/GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-46986>
- <https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms/commit/b3b12b1e4a9e3fccaf5bb4330820fa7f8744e6bd>
- <https://codeql.github.com/codeql-query-help/ruby/rb-path-injection>
- <https://github.com/owen2345/camaleon-cms>
- <https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/camaleon_cms/CVE-2024-46986.yml>
- <https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal>
- <https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2024-182_GHSL-2024-186_Camaleon_CMS>
- <https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/comments/1exwtdm/camaleon_cms_281_has_been_released>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-wmjg-vqhv-q5p5>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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