CVE-2026-86251 PUBLISHED

h3 before 1.15.9 Path Traversal via Double Decoding

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.09.2026 Published: 06.09.2026 Updated: 06.09.2026

h3 versions before 1.15.9 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the serveStatic utility. A double-decoding flaw allows a request path containing double-encoded dot sequences (e.g. %252e%252e) to be decoded to %2e%2e, which survives resolveDotSegments() because that function only checks for literal '.' characters. When the resulting asset ID is resolved by URL-based backends (CDN, S3, object storage), %2e%2e is interpreted as '..' per RFC 3986, enabling path traversal to read arbitrary files from the backend.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor h3js
Product h3
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.15.9 (excl.)
  • Version 1.15.9 is unaffected

Credits

  • offset reporter

References

Problem Types

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