CVE-2026-74798 PUBLISHED

SiYuan kernel Path Traversal via database_clean MCP tool

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 16.08.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

SiYuan kernel before v3.7.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the database_clean MCP tool. The tool performs only an empty-string check on the id parameter before passing it to RemoveUnusedAttributeView (kernel/model/attribute_view.go), which builds a filesystem path via filepath.Join without validating that id matches SiYuan's node-ID format. An authenticated MCP client can supply path traversal sequences in id to cause the kernel to copy an arbitrary file readable by the process into SiYuan's history directory (arbitrary file read) and then delete the original file (arbitrary file deletion). The corresponding HTTP API handler was hardened in GHSA-7hm9-v7vf-7g4w, but this MCP caller was not.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.3

Product Status

Vendor siyuan-note
Product siyuan
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.7.4 (excl.)
  • Version 3.7.4 is unaffected

Credits

  • alham-rizvi reporter

References

Problem Types

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