CWE-61— UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
The product, when opening a file or directory, does not sufficiently account for when the file is a symbolic link that resolves to a target outside of the intended control sphere. This could allow an attacker to cause the product to operate on unauthorized files.— MITRE CWE catalog
170 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
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- CVE-2026-53802HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-08-13
rsync before 3.5.0 contains an arbitrary file read vulnerability that allows attackers to read files accessible to the rsync daemon process by exploiting symlink following in input configuration file handling including --files-from, --pass…
- CVE-2026-54420CRITICALCVSS 8.5EG 9.0⚠ KEV2026-06-14
LiteSpeed cPanel plugin before 2.4.8 (as distributed in LiteSpeed WHM PlugIn before 5.3.2.0) mishandles symlinks provided by a user with FTP or web shell access on a shared hosting server running CloudLinux/CageFS, as exploited in the wild…
- CVE-2026-54574HIGHCVSS 8.2EG 8.22026-07-29
proot-distro is a utility for managing proot containers. Prior to version 5.1.5, proot-distro install extracted plain tarball root filesystems through _extract_plain_tar() in proot_distro/commands/install.py and Docker layers through _appl…
- CVE-2026-55168MEDIUMCVSS 6.5EG 6.52026-08-21
Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated at…
- CVE-2026-55447CRITICALCVSS 9.6EG 9.62026-06-19
Langflow is a tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows. Prior to 1.9.2, by controlling a files that are digested into the RAG, an attacker can direct the node to read any file on the file-system by absolute path. All…
- CVE-2026-55686MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-06-18
Podman is a tool for managing OCI containers and pods. From 3.0.0 until 5.7.1, running a malicious container image where the WORKDIR path contains a symlink can create a directory or modify ownership on the host filesystem. Modified owners…
- CVE-2026-56748HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-07-27
Improper validation of symbolic links in the Pack Git import feature in Cribl Stream before 4.18.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker with Pack import and pipeline preview permissions to execute arbitrary code as the Cribl server proce…
- CVE-2026-56815HIGHCVSS 7.4EG 7.42026-06-23
pwnlift before d7a9544, in a privileged deployment, contains a symlink following vulnerability in the upload handler in Components/Pages/Home.razor.
- CVE-2026-56876HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-06-26
extract-zip does not validate symlink targets when extracting zip archives. When processing a malicious zip file containing a symlink with a relative path like '../../../../etc/passwd', extract-zip will extract the symlink without validati…
- CVE-2026-59674HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-07-14
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in openSUSE Tumbleweed suricata package allows the suricata user to escalate to root. This issue affects openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ? before 8.0.5-2.1; openSUSE Tumbleweed: from ?…
- CVE-2026-62992MEDIUMCVSS 6.9EG 6.92026-08-07
Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. Prior to 5.8.2 (and 4.5.7 on the 4.x line), Security::_checkDir() does not fully resolve symbolic links before validating t…
- CVE-2026-63125CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-21
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, an unprivileged, project-confined Incus user (a non-admin TLS/RBAC identity with `can_create_images` and `can_create_instances`) can execute arbitrary code as…
- CVE-2026-6475HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-05-14
Symlink following in PostgreSQL pg_basebackup plain format and in pg_rewind allows an origin superuser to overwrite local files, e.g. /var/lib/postgres/.bashrc, that hijack the operating system account. It will remain the case that starti…
- CVE-2026-64846LOWCVSS 2.8EG 2.82026-08-20
Nix is a package manager for Linux and other Unix systems. Prior to 2.35.0, a malicious derivation executed with the recursive-nix experimental feature can exploit a time-of-check/time-of-use race involving final symlink handling in the Lo…
- CVE-2026-65010MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62026-07-23
Datasets through 5.00, fixed in commit ad2d853, contains a symlink-following vulnerability in Extractor.extract() that allows local attackers to write arbitrary files by pre-planting symlinks at predictable output paths. Attackers can redi…
- CVE-2026-7397MEDIUMCVSS 4.4EG 4.42026-04-29
A security flaw has been discovered in NousResearch hermes-agent 0.8.0. This affects the function _check_sensitive_path of the file tools/file_tools.py. The manipulation results in symlink following. Attacking locally is a requirement. The…
- CVE-2026-75038MEDIUMCVSS 6.1EG 6.12026-08-25
UNIX symbolic link (symlink) following vulnerability in ilya-zlobintsev/LACT allows for local denial-of-service. This issue affects LACT: through 0.10.0.
- CVE-2026-7819HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-05-11
Symbolic-link path traversal (CWE-61, CWE-22) in pgAdmin 4 File Manager. check_access_permission used os.path.abspath, which resolves '..' but does not resolve symbolic links, while the subsequent kernel write follows symlinks. An authent…
- CVE-2026-7832HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02026-05-05
A security flaw has been discovered in IObit Advanced SystemCare 19. This affects an unknown part of the file ASC.exe of the component Service. The manipulation results in symlink following. Attacking locally is a requirement. This attack …
- CVE-2026-8784MEDIUMCVSS 4.2EG 4.22026-05-18
A vulnerability was detected in npitre cramfs-tools up to 2.2. Affected is the function change_file_status of the file cramfsck.c. Performing a manipulation results in symlink following. The attack requires a local approach. The exploit is…
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