browserless versions 1.44.0 through 2.56.7 fail to enforce file protocol restrictions in Playwright websocket endpoints, allowing authenticated token holders to read arbitrary files. Attackers can navigate Playwright-driven browsers to file scheme URLs and access files accessible to the container process despite the ALLOW_FILE_PROTOCOL setting defaulting to false.
CVE-2026-92811
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-16. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 45(Track)EG Risk 45/100SSVC: Track
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 computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 37%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 16, 2026
Last Modified
September 22, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Sep 16, 2026browserless 1.44.0 through 2.56.7 File Protocol Restriction Bypass | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/browserless-1.44.0-through-2.56.7-file-protocol-restriction-bypassGitHub - browserless/browserless: Deploy headless browsers in Docker. Run on our cloud or bring your own. Free for non-commercial uses. · GitHub
https://github.com/browserless/browserlessbrowserless/src/browsers/browsers.playwright.ts at v2.50.1 · browserless/browserless · GitHub
https://github.com/browserless/browserless/blob/v2.50.1/src/browsers/browsers.playwright.tsbrowserless/src/browsers/browsers.cdp.ts at v2.50.1 · browserless/browserless · GitHub
https://github.com/browserless/browserless/blob/v2.50.1/src/browsers/browsers.cdp.ts#L105-L135oss/browserless.md at main · geo-chen/oss · GitHub
https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/browserless.mdVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-92811(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 23× in last 7d / 29× in last 30d)
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- 2026-09-24 23:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-24 23:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-23 21:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-23 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-22 20:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-22 17:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-22 17:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-22 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-21 16:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-21 16:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-21 15:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-21 15:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-21 00:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-21 00:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-20 00:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-20 00:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 23:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 23:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-17 22:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-17 22:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-09-17 19:32 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-09-16 21:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 20:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-16 20:34 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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