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High · 8.8 CVE-2026-57856 EUVD-2026-43577GHSA-cfx5-q5qm-x936

Cockpit CMS Path Traversal via Bucket Name in Bucket File Storage API

Published Jul 13, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Cockpit CMS contains a path traversal vulnerability in the Bucket file storage API (/system/buckets/api). The api() method in modules/System/Controller/Buckets.php sanitizes the bucket name with preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9-_\\.]/','', $bucket), which permits '..' and '../' sequences. The sanitized value is interpolated into a Flysystem path as uploads://buckets/{bucket}. Flysystem's WhitespacePathNormalizer resolves 'buckets/..' to the empty string (the uploads storage root) without raising PathTraversalDetected because the '..' has a preceding component to consume. An authenticated low-privileged user can send a crafted request with a '../' bucket name to list, upload, and delete files across all buckets, including those belonging to other users or roles

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Cockpit HQ Cockpit CMS — —

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