CVE-2026-81743 PUBLISHED

Flowintel Arbitrary Log File Path Allows Remote Code Execution via Template Injection

Assigner: CIRCL
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 27.08.2026 Updated: 27.08.2026

Affected versions of Flowintel allow the LOG_FILE configuration value to be modified through system settings without restricting it to a filename inside the intended log directory.

Because the application constructs the log destination from this configurable value, an administrator could set LOG_FILE to an arbitrary filesystem path. Since attackers can influence logged content, this enables controlled data to be written into unintended files. The upstream commit specifically describes an exploitation chain in which an attacker injects a template into a chosen file and subsequently abuses application rendering behavior to execute code.

The patch removes LOG_FILE from the web-editable settings, introduces validate_log_file_name() to reject absolute paths, traversal, Windows paths, null bytes, and directory components, and centralizes log path construction through resolve_log_file_path().

Version impacted: >=3.3.0

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor flowintel
Product flowintel
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 3.3.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • Jeroen Pinoy finder
  • David Cruciani remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-126 Path Traversal