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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-35487 EUVD-2026-19672

text-generation-webui has a Path Traversal in load_prompt() — .txt file read without authentication

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 7, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

text-generation-webui is an open-source web interface for running Large Language Models. Prior to 4.3, an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in load_prompt() allows reading any .txt file on the server filesystem. The file content is returned verbatim in the API response. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
oobabooga text-generation-webui < 4.3 —

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