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 7.8CVE-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 7.7
DBD::File versions before 1.651 for Perl do not ensure the table file is not a symlink to an untrusted location
DBD::File versions before 1.651 for Perl do not ensure the table file is not a symlink to an untrusted location. The complete_table_name method builds the absolute table file path without checking whether the file is a symbolic link. A link inside the data di…
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High 7.0
Improper link resolution before file access in Bitdefender Total Security via Link Following (VA-13681)
An Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') vulnerability in the File Shredder module as used in Bitdefender Total Security and Internet Security on Windows allows a less-privileged local user to elevate rights by leveraging a race condi…
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Medium 6.3
louisho5 picobot Workspace filesystem.go GetSkill link following
A weakness has been identified in louisho5 picobot up to 0.2.0. Impacted is the function CreateSkill/GetSkill of the file internal/agent/tools/filesystem.go of the component Workspace Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to link following. It is possibl…
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Medium 5.3
mosaxiv clawlet File Tools fs_ops.go edit_file link following
A vulnerability was detected in mosaxiv clawlet up to 0.2.10. This impacts the function read_file/write_file/edit_file of the file tools/fs_ops.go of the component File Tools. Performing a manipulation results in link following. The attack needs to be approac…
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Medium 4.7
AnyDesk Screen Recording Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
AnyDesk Screen Recording Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of AnyDesk. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privilege…
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Medium 4.7
AnyDesk Support Information Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability
AnyDesk Support Information Link Following Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of AnyDesk. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privil…
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High 7.3
Glarysoft Glary Utilities Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Glarysoft Glary Utilities Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Glarysoft Glary Utilities. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute lo…
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High 7.1
OpenClaw < 2026.6.9 Symlink Following via Mirror Sync
OpenClaw versions before 2026.6.9 contain a symlink following vulnerability in the mirror sync feature that allows lower-trust callers to perform actions requiring stronger authorization. Attackers can exploit remote symlink parents to bypass policy checks an…
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Medium 6.6
FlashAttention Symlink Attack via tarfile.extractall in hopper/setup.py
FlashAttention through 2.8.3.post1, fixed in commit 0816ef1, contains a symlink attack vulnerability in the download_and_copy() function within hopper/setup.py that extracts NVIDIA toolchain archives without validating symlinks or filtering tar members. A loc…
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Low 3.3
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 Policy Bypass via APNG encoder
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in the APNG encoder and external delegates due to missing validation checks. Attackers can write files to disallowed paths by bypassing configured policy restrictions through the APNG encoding…
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Medium 5.5
ChatterBot: Symlink-Following Arbitrary Write via UbuntuCorpusTrainer
ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots. Prior to 1.2.14, UbuntuCorpusTrainer.extract() uses a predictable home-rooted output directory (~/ubuntu_data/ubuntu_dialogs) with a check-then-create pattern followed by t…
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Medium 5.5
decompress allows arbitrary hardlink creation during archive extraction
decompress before 4.2.2 allows arbitrary hardlink creation during archive extraction, enabling file read disclosure and file corruption. When processing hardlink entries (type === 'link'), the x.linkname field from the archive is passed directly to fs.link() …
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High 7.5
decompress before 4.2.2 allows arbitrary symlink creation during archive extraction. When processing symlink entries (t…
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Medium 4.7CVE-2026-14361 Public exploit
Consul-template is vulnerable to path redirection in writeToFile through symlink attack
The consul-template library before version 0.42.1 is vulnerable to a path redirection issue in the writeToFile template helper that may allow template output to be written outside the intended directory or to overwrite an existing file. This vulnerability (CV…
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High 8.7
Nomad vulnerable to sandbox escape in Docker task driver
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise are vulnerable to a sandbox escape in the Docker task driver that may allow a job submitter to bind-mount a host path into a container even when volume bind mounts are disabled, potentially leading to reading and writing f…
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Low 3.1
Symlink guard bypass in unarchive module allows planting symlinks during extraction
BBOT's unarchive module rejects archives containing symlink entries before extraction, but for zip and 7z archives it failed to detect symlinks whose listing carries a DOS-attribute prefix before the unix mode, as produced by legacy versions of p7zip. Such an…
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Medium 6.3
File Browser: ScopedFs follows a dangling symlink on write, letting a scoped user create files outside their scope
File Browser provides a web file managing interface. Prior to 2.63.16, ScopedFs validates the nearest existing ancestor of a dangling symlink as in scope and then follows the symlink during file creation, allowing an authenticated user with Create and Modify …
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Medium 6.5
RES Auth.GetUserPrivateKey Arbitrary File Read
AWS Research and Engineering Studio (RES) is an open-source solution that enables researchers and engineers to create and manage secure virtual desktops and computing resources on AWS. Improper link resolution before file access issue (CWE-59) in the Auth.Get…
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Critical 9.6
Crawl4AI arbitrary file write via download filename path traversal
Crawl4AI is an open-source LLM-friendly web crawler and scraper. Prior to 0.9.0, when the crawler saves a downloaded file, the destination filename was taken from attacker-influenced input and joined to the downloads directory with no confinement. A filename …
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Medium 6.9
Hugo: Symlink confinement bypass in resources.Get
Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.123.0 to 0.161.1, a regression made RootMappingFs.statRoot use Stat (follows symlinks) instead of Lstat , so a direct resources.Get of a symlink pointing outside its mount returned the target's contents — letting…
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Medium 5.9
Hugo symlink confinement bypass in os.ReadFile
Hugo is a static site generator. From v0.123.0 through v0.163.0, Hugo's virtual filesystem is designed so that files under a mount cannot reach outside the mount tree, but a regression caused RootMappingFs.statRoot to call Stat, which follows symlinks, instea…
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Medium 5.3
NestedSecretsSettingsSource follows symlinks outside secrets_dir, enabling local file read and bypassing secrets_dir_max_size
pydantic-settings provides settings management using Pydantic. From 2.12.0 until 2.14.2, NestedSecretsSettingsSource reads secret values from files in a configured secrets_dir. When secrets_nested_subdir=True, a directory entry inside secrets_dir that is a sy…
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Low 3.3
zcaceres markdownify-mcp Markdownify.ts assertPathAllowed symlink
A weakness has been identified in zcaceres markdownify-mcp up to 1.1.0. The affected element is the function assertPathAllowed of the file src/Markdownify.ts. Executing a manipulation can lead to symlink following. The attack can only be executed locally. The…
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High 7.4
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) allows an unauthorized attacker to disclose information over a network.
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Critical 9.1
Gitea template repository generation mishandles symlinked paths
Gitea versions before 1.25.5 mishandle path resolution during template repository generation, allowing template processing to read or write through symlinked or otherwise non-regular paths.
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Medium 4.9
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.7, LTS2026 release version 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.10, LTS2025 …
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Medium 4.4
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.7, LTS2026 release version 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.10, LTS2025 …
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Medium 4.4
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.6, LTS2026 release version 8.6.1.0 through 8.6.1.10, LTS2025 …
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None 0.0
land.oras:oras-java-sdk: Symlink-based path traversal in ArchiveUtils.untar / unzip allows arbitrary file write outside extraction directory
### Summary `ArchiveUtils.untar(InputStream, Path)` and `ArchiveUtils.unzip(InputStream, Path)` in `land.oras:oras-java-sdk` create symbolic-link entries from an archive without validating the symlink target. A malicious tar (or zip) shipped as an OCI layer b…
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High 7.3
Dell Device Management Agent, versions prior to DDMA 26.05, contain an Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Li…
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High 7.7
Claude Code: Sandbox Escape via Git Worktree Path Confusion Allows Unsandboxed Code Execution
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. From 2.1.38 until 2.1.163, Claude Code's worktree handling allowed creation of worktrees named ".git" and navigation to worktrees outside the sandbox context, enabling git directory confusion attacks. By exploiting symli…
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Medium 4.4
Claude Code: Insecure Temporary File in /copy Command Enables Response Disclosure and Symlink-Based File Write
Claude Code is an agentic coding tool. From 2.1.59 until 2.1.128, the Claude Code /copy command wrote responses to a hardcoded, predictable path (/tmp/claude/response.md) without UID isolation, randomness, or symlink protection. The file was created world-rea…
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High 7.1
attr < 2.6.0 Symlink Traversal Privilege Escalation via getfattr/setfattr
attr before version 2.6.0 contains a symlink traversal vulnerability in the getfattr and setfattr utilities that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by replacing a pathname component with a symbolic link during directory hierarchy traversal. Attacke…
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High 7.1
acl < 2.4.0 Symlink Traversal Privilege Escalation via libacl Functions
acl before version 2.4.0 contains a symlink traversal vulnerability in the libacl pathname-based functions acl_get_file(), acl_set_file(), acl_extended_file(), and acl_delete_def_file() that allows local attackers to escalate privileges by replacing any pathn…
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Critical 9.6
Budibase: Arbitrary file read by workspace-builder via PWA-zip symlink upload
Budibase is an open-source low-code platform. Prior to 3.39.9, `POST /api/pwa/process-zip` at packages/server/src/api/routes/static.ts:24 accepts a builder-uploaded .zip, extracts it with extract-zip@2.0.1 into a temp directory, then for each entry listed in …
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Medium 5.3
Podman: WORKDIR symlink traversal vulnerability
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 ownership is less likely t…
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Critical 9.0
Dokku: Arbitrary File Write via Tar Symlink Traversal in git:from-archive and certs:add
Dokku is a docker-powered PaaS. Prior to 0.38.2, the git:from-archive and certs:add commands extract user-supplied tar/zip archives into temporary directories without sanitizing member paths or preventing symlink traversal. GNU tar creates symlinks during ext…
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Critical 9.3
Cursor Desktop sandbox escape via symlink and failed path canonicalization
Cursor is a code editor built for programming with AI. Prior to 3.0, Cursor runs agent terminal commands in a sandbox by default. Before a Write, the agent canonicalizes the target path to confirm it stays inside the workspace, but when canonicalization fails…
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High 7.5
File Browser: Symlink following lets scoped users read, overwrite, and share files outside their filebrowser scope
File Browser is a file managing interface for uploading, deleting, previewing, renaming, and editing files within a specified directory. Prior to 2.63.14, it does not stop the HTTP file handlers from following symbolic links before they open, serve, write, sh…