# CVE-2026-26058: Zulip: Path Traversal in Import

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 11.6
- Published: 2026-04-03 · Updated: 2026-04-06

## Affected

- zulip: from 1.4.0, fixed in 11.6

## Description

Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. From version 1.4.0 to before version 11.6, ./manage.py import reads arbitrary files from the server filesystem via path traversal in uploads/records.json. A crafted export tarball causes the server to copy any file the zulip user can read into the uploads directory during import. This issue has been patched in version 11.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on zulip, upgrade to a fixed version (11.6) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-xm5c-c6mp-3956
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/2df49e7750ce3fc49ef1d44b1c4ece654d4b754c

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