CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-40611
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Let's Encrypt client and ACME library written in Go (Lego). Prior to 4.34.0, the webroot HTTP-01 challenge provider in lego is vulnerable to arbitrary file write and deletion via path traversal. A malicious ACME server can supply a crafted challenge token containing ../ sequences, causing lego to write attacker-influenced content to any path writable by the lego process. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.34.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/go-acme/lego/security/advisories/GHSA-qqx8-2xmm-jrv8 github.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21772 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40611 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460233 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/go-acme/lego/security/advisories/GHSA-qqx8-2xmm-jrv8 github.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-40611.json security.access.redhat.com