CVE-2026-109118 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitLab
Reserved: 12.10.2026 Published: 16.10.2026 Updated: 16.10.2026

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

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.6

Product Status

Vendor ikus-soft
Product rdiffweb
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 7.1.1 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to 7.2.0

Credits

  • Hari Prasanth S <hariprasanth9317@gmail.com> finder

References

Problem Types

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