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Medium, CVSS 5.3amended

Arbitrary system path lookup in h20

CVE-2024-5550GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m

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Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

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Affected packages

  • PyPI h2o

    Affected
    <= 3.40.0.4
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
  • CVE-2024-5550: 0.83% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 57.74 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

In h2oai/h2o-3 version 3.40.0.4, an exposure of sensitive information vulnerability exists due to an arbitrary system path lookup feature. This vulnerability allows any remote user to view full paths in the entire file system where h2o-3 is hosted. Specifically, the issue resides in the Typeahead API call, which when requested with a typeahead lookup of '/', exposes the root filesystem including directories such as /home, /usr, /bin, among others. This vulnerability could allow attackers to explore the entire filesystem, and when combined with a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability, could make exploitation of the server trivial.

Dates and revisions
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Last modified by the source
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  1. Revision 2 · amended ·

    Amended from ghsa record GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m

  2. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from osv record GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2024-5550

Advisory: Arbitrary system path lookup in h20
IDs: CVE-2024-5550, GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2024-5550 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:35 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI h2o: affected <= 3.40.0.4

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show h2o`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on h2o.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m (OSV record GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m lists affected ranges: PyPI h2o >=0 <=3.40.0.4)
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-x234-r5fg-x52m lists affected ranges: PyPI h2o >=0 <=3.40.0.4)

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