Weakness (CWE)
CWE-59: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access
The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Architecture and Design
Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
Denying access to a file can prevent an attacker from replacing that file with a link to a sensitive file. Ensure good compartmentalization in the system to provide protected areas that can be trusted.
Source: MITRE CWE-59
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High 7.1CVE-2026-87008 Public exploit
Code Graph RAG structural tools follow out-of-root symlinks
Code Graph RAG is an AI-powered knowledge graph and retrieval system for querying, understanding, and editing multi-language codebases. Prior to 0.0.589, AstGrepService in codebase_rag/tools/ast_grep_service.py enumerates files beneath project_root and relies…
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High 7.2CVE-2026-104068 Public exploit
JetBackup WordPress Plugin < 3.1.24.10 Symlink Arbitrary File Write via Backup Restore
JetBackup plugin for WordPress before 3.1.24.10 contains a symlink-based arbitrary file write vulnerability that allows an authenticated WordPress administrator to write attacker-controlled file contents outside the intended restore destination during backup …
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High 7.8
Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Update Stack allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
KEV Sep 8, 2026 -
High 8.7CVE-2026-65647 Public exploit
Improper symlink resolution before file access in Plesk allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as …
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High 7.1CVE-2026-17106 Public exploit
Tar extraction in moby/go-archive can write outside the destination directory via link following
The tar extraction routines in moby/go-archive (Unpack, UnpackLayer, Untar/UntarUncompressed, and the ApplyLayer helpers) do not confine filesystem operations to the destination directory. The extractor decides where each archive entry lands using lexical str…
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High 7.8CVE-2026-69414 Public exploit
Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "ShieldBreak ".
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High 7.8CVE-2026-49176 Public exploit
Windows WalletService Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper privilege management in Windows WalletService allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 7.8
Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft is aware of an elevation of privilege in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine in Microsoft Defender publicly referred to as "RoguePlanet ".
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High 7.3CVE-2026-11837 Public exploit
Ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown
A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorized_key module. The module's keyfile() function uses os.chown() instead of os.lchown() and opens files without O_NOFOLLOW when managing SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local…
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High 8.5CVE-2026-44881 Public exploit
Portainer: Arbitrary File Read via Git Symlink Injection in Stack Auto-Update
Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33.8, 2.39.2, and 2.41.0, Portainer supports deploying sta…
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High 7.8
Microsoft Defender Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Defender allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
KEV May 20, 2026 -
High 7.1CVE-2026-0827 Public exploit
During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo Diagnostics and the Hardware…
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High 8.8CVE-2026-32013 Public exploit
OpenClaw < 2026.2.25 - Symlink Traversal in agents.files Methods
OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.25 contain a symlink traversal vulnerability in the agents.files.get and agents.files.set methods that allows reading and writing files outside the agent workspace. Attackers can exploit symlinked allowlisted files to access …
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High 8.2CVE-2026-29786 Public exploit
node-tar: Hardlink Path Traversal via Drive-Relative Linkpath
node-tar is a full-featured Tar for Node.js. Prior to version 7.5.10, tar can be tricked into creating a hardlink that points outside the extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target such as C:../target.txt, which enables file overwrite outside …
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High 7.1CVE-2025-66680 Public exploit
An issue in the WiseDelfile64.sys component of WiseCleaner Wise Force Deleter 7.3.2 and earlier allows attackers to del…
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High 7.4CVE-2025-63946 Public exploit
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Tencent PC Manager app thru 17.10.28554.205 on Windows devices enables…
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High 7.4CVE-2025-63945 Public exploit
A privilege escalation (PE) vulnerability in the Tencent iOA app thru 210.9.28693.621001 on Windows devices enables a l…
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High 7.1CVE-2026-24046 Public exploit
Backstage has a Possible Symlink Path Traversal in Scaffolder Actions
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Multiple Scaffolder actions and archive extraction utilities were vulnerable to symlink-based path traversal attacks. An attacker with access to create and execute Scaffolder templates could explo…
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High 7.8
Host Process for Windows Tasks Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Host Process for Windows Tasks allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
KEV Apr 13, 2026 -
High 8.1
Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). W…
KEV Aug 25, 2025 -
High 7.8CVE-2025-48799 Public exploit
Windows Update Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Update Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 8.8CVE-2025-47181 Public exploit
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Update Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 7.8CVE-2025-21204 Public exploit
Windows Process Activation Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Update Stack allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 7.5CVE-2024-12905 Public exploit
tar-fs Vulnerable to Link Following and Path Traversal via Extracting a Crafted tar File
An Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ("Link Following") and Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ("Path Traversal"). This vulnerability occurs when extracting a maliciously crafted tar file, which can result in unauthorized fi…
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High 7.8CVE-2025-21420 Public exploit
Windows Disk Cleanup Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Disk Cleanup Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 8.7
QTS, QuTS hero
A link following vulnerability has been reported to affect several QNAP operating system versions. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow remote attackers who have gained user access to traverse the file system to unintended locations. We have already fi…
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High 7.1CVE-2024-44258 Public exploit
This issue was addressed with improved handling of symlinks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.7.1 and iPadOS 17.7.1, iOS 1…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-50226 Public exploit
Parallels Desktop Updater Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Parallels Desktop Updater Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Parallels Desktop. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privil…
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High 7.8CVE-2024-20656 Public exploit
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.8CVE-2023-36723 Public exploit
Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Container Manager Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.8CVE-2023-32163 Public exploit
Wacom Drivers for Windows Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Wacom Drivers for Windows Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Wacom Drivers for Windows. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute lo…
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High 7.8
Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Error Reporting Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
KEV Jul 11, 2023 -
High 7.8CVE-2023-33148 Public exploit
Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.8CVE-2023-29343 Public exploit
SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
SysInternals Sysmon for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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High 7.3CVE-2022-38604 Public exploit
Wacom Driver 6.3.46-1 for Windows and lower was discovered to contain an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability.
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High 7.8
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Windows Print Spooler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
KEV Mar 25, 2022 -
High 8.0
malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
Git is an open-source distributed revision control system. In affected versions of Git a specially crafted repository that contains symbolic links as well as files using a clean/smudge filter such as Git LFS, may cause just-checked out script to be executed w…
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High 7.2CVE-2020-8103 Public exploit
Link Resolution Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Bitdefender Antivirus Free (VA-8604)
A vulnerability in the improper handling of symbolic links in Bitdefender Antivirus Free can allow an unprivileged user to substitute a quarantined file, and restore it to a privileged location. This issue affects Bitdefender Antivirus Free versions prior to …
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High 7.8
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) improper…
KEV Jan 28, 2022 -
High 7.8
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Windows Installer when MSI packages process symbolic links, aka '…
KEV Nov 3, 2021