CVE-2026-75914

CodeWhale before 0.8.64 Path Traversal via image_analyze symlink

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Aug 18, 2026
Updated: Aug 20, 2026
Reserved: Aug 18, 2026

Description

CodeWhale versions before 0.8.64 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the image_analyze tool that fails to canonicalize symlinks before reading files. Attackers can create workspace symlinks pointing to external files with image extensions to leak file bytes to the vision endpoint without user approval.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
CodeWhaleHmbown	0.8.32 to before 0.8.41Affected 0.8.41Not affected
CodeWhaleHmbown	0.8.32 to before 0.8.41Affected 0.8.41Not affected
CodeWhaleHmbown	0.8.41 to before 0.8.64Affected 0.8.64Not affected
CodeWhaleHmbown	0.8.41 to before 0.8.64Affected 0.8.64Not affected

References

GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-w7wx-5q49-r59w)vendor-advisory
Patch Commitpatch
VulnCheck Advisory: CodeWhale before 0.8.64 Path Traversal via image_analyze symlinkthird-party-advisory

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