CVE-2026-55062

uniget: Path Traversal in Hook Files - Directory Escape Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 8.4 High
Published: Sep 17, 2026
Updated: Sep 23, 2026
Reserved: Jun 16, 2026

Description

uniget is a universal installer and updater for (container) tools. Prior to 0.27.6, the hooks edit command in cmd/uniget/hooks.go concatenates an unvalidated hook filename with the selected hooks directory, allowing parent-directory components to escape that directory. The resulting path is passed to the configured editor, which can access or modify files outside the hooks directory with the privileges of the uniget process account. This issue is fixed in version 0.27.6.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.4 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal
CWE-36 Absolute Path Traversal
CWE-73 External Control of File Name or Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
cliuniget-org	< 0.27.6Affected

References

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