CVE-2026-103648

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-10-02. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

Path traversal in image-downloader 4.3.0 allows an attacker who can control the download URL to cause downloaded response data to be written outside the configured destination directory.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
56
EG Risk 56/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity91% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
33rd
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

October 2, 2026

Last Modified

October 3, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 2, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

fix(security): prevent path traversal in filename extraction (CWE-22) (fb445430) · Commits · Sébastien Demanou / Image Downloader · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/demsking/image-downloader/-/commit/fb4454304276e2439fb19b98836b3ba903b3aaea
generic

Work items · Sébastien Demanou / Image Downloader · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/demsking/image-downloader/-/work_items/32

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-103648(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 19× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-04 09:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-04 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 01:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-03 20:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 16:23 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 16:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-03 16:11 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-03 16:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-03 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-03 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-03 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-02 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-02 18:51 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-02 18:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-02 16:27 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-02 16:13 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-02 16:11 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-103648?
CVE-2026-103648 is a critical vulnerability published on October 2, 2026. Path traversal in image-downloader 4.3.0 allows an attacker who can control the download URL to cause downloaded response data to be written outside the configured destination directory.
When was CVE-2026-103648 disclosed?
CVE-2026-103648 was first published on October 2, 2026, with the most recent update on October 3, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-103648 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-103648 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (33rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-103648?
CVE-2026-103648 has a CVSS base score of 9.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-103648?
No fix for CVE-2026-103648 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-103648 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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