CVE-2026-109118

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in rdiffweb

State
Published
Severity
4.6 Medium
Published
Oct 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 16, 2026
Reserved
Oct 12, 2026

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Description

Improper path containment check in ikus060 rdiffweb 7.1.1 allows an authenticated user to cause the browse, restore, history and delete operations to resolve to a path outside the repository being operated on, via a percent-encoded traversal sequence (%2e%2e) in the request path, because the containment check uses a string prefix comparison (startswith) instead of a filesystem path boundary check. The target must be a sibling path whose name begins with the repository path, and the user already hold permissions on it; the issue can mislead a user into operating on, or deleting, data other than the repository displayed

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.6 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LGitLab

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rdiffwebikus-soft
  • before 7.1.1Affected

References

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