CVE-2026-55825

Contao: Possible path traversal in job download URIs

State
Published
Severity
3.1 Low
Published
Jul 31, 2026
Updated
Jul 31, 2026
Reserved
Jun 17, 2026

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Description

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions 5.7.0 through 5.7.6, an authenticated backend user who can access one job can request an attachment identifier containing ../ segments and make the job attachment download endpoint read a file from another job directory inside var/job-attachments. The controller authorizes only the jobUuid route parameter. The later attachment lookup joins that authorized job UUID with the attacker-controlled identifier, then passes the combined path to the virtual filesystem. VirtualFilesystem::resolve() canonicalizes the whole path and only rejects paths that escape the filesystem mount, so authorized-job/../victim-job/debug_log.csv becomes victim-job/debug_log.csv. This is a cross-job authorization bypass for known job attachment paths. It is not a practical brute-force against unknown jobs because job directories are UUID v4 values.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.1 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
contaocontao
  • >= 5.7.0, < 5.7.7Affected

References

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