CVE-2026-42888

Audiobookshelf: Path Traversal vulnerability in the audiobookshelf project

State: Published
Severity: 6.9 Medium
Published: May 11, 2026
Updated: May 12, 2026
Reserved: Apr 30, 2026

Description

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.32.2, the podcast creation endpoint at server/controllers/PodcastController.js accepts a user-controlled file path without sufficient boundary validation to ensure it remains within the intended library directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.32.2.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.9 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
audiobookshelfadvplyr	< 2.33.2Affected

References

https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/security/advisories/GHSA-phch-9734-wrp3

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