Alta Aware — 1083: Unhandled panic when handling paths with non-UTF-8 characters

Release Date

14th of February 2024.

Overview

It was discovered that non-UTF-8 characters in the path could trigger a panic in an API endpoint on Ava Cloud.

Affected Products

  • Ava Cloud: before 24th January 2024.

Unaffected Products

  • Ava Aware: all versions.
  • Ava Cameras: all versions.
  • Ava Cloud: from 24th January 2024

Resolution

A fix was deployed to the Ava Cloud on 24th January 2024. Ava Cloud customers do not need to take any additional action.

Vulnerability Information

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue found internally by Ava Security.

Disclosure Timeline

  • 23/01/2024 Issue found internally by Ava Security
  • 23/01/2024 Root cause established
  • 23/01/2024 Fix identified
  • 24/01/2024 Patched Ava Cloud released
  • 14/02/2024 Vulnerability publicly disclosed