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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-49833 EUVD-2026-70235GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x

DSpace: Path Traversal possible in LDN message generation

Published Sep 2, 2026 · Updated Sep 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

DSpace open source software is a repository application which provides durable access to digital resources. From versions 8.0-rc1 to before 8.4, 9.0-rc1 to before 9.3, and 10-rc1 to before 10.0, a path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack. When reading a file input stream of an "inbound pattern" / "template", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. This could allow an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system (e.g. an export log, a bitstream path, a temporary file) to be read and interpreted as an Apache Velocity template. This issue has been patched in versions 8.4, 9.3, and 10.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DSpace DSpace >= 8.0-rc1, < 8.4, >= 9.0-rc1, < 9.3, = 10-rc1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.dspace:dspace-api >= 8.0-rc1, < 8.4 8.4 GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x
Maven org.dspace:dspace-api >= 9.0-rc1, < 9.3 9.3 GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x
Maven org.dspace:dspace-api >= 10.0-rc1, < 10.0 10.0 GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x

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