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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-35583 EUVD-2026-19732GHSA-hxf2-gm22-7vcm

Emissary has a Path Traversal via Blacklist Bypass in Configuration API

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Emissary is a P2P based data-driven workflow engine. Prior to 8.39.0, the configuration API endpoint (/api/configuration/{name}) validated configuration names using a blacklist approach that checked for \, /, .., and trailing .. This could potentially be bypassed using URL-encoded variants, double-encoding, or Unicode normalization to achieve path traversal and read configuration files outside the intended directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.39.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NationalSecurityAgency emissary < 8.39.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven gov.nsa.emissary:emissary < 8.39.0 8.39.0 GHSA-hxf2-gm22-7vcm

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