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High · 7.0 CVE-2026-49453 EUVD-2026-84167

Joplin: Path traversal in resource sync — silent arbitrary file write outside the resource directory

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do application that organises notes and lists into notebooks. Prior to 3.6.15 and 3.7.2, Joplin accepts synchronized resource metadata whose id or file_extension contains parent-directory or path-separator characters. BaseItem.unserialize() stores the unvalidated fields, resourceFilename() concatenates them into a destination path, and ResourceFetcher writes the attacker-controlled resource blob outside the resource directory during background synchronization. An attacker with write access to a configured sync target or shared notebook can create or overwrite files at an attacker-chosen existing path without user interaction. This issue is fixed in versions 3.6.15 and 3.7.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
laurent22 joplin < 3.6.15, >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.2 —

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