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CVE-2026-43891PYSEC-2026-30GHSA-8757-69J2-HX56

changedetection.io: Arbitrary Local File Read via crafted backup restore

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.55.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.55.1, the vulnerability is caused by trusting attacker-controlled snapshot paths restored from backup files. The vulnerable flow starts in the backup restore logic. When a backup ZIP is restored, the application extracts the archive and copies each restored watch UUID directory directly into the live datastore using shutil.copytree(entry.path, dst_dir). This preserves attacker-controlled files inside the restored watch directory, including history.txt. After restore, the application parses history.txt in the watch history property and returns the contents of the targeted local file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • dgtlmoon changedetection.io

    fixed in 0.55.1

  • changedetection-ioPyPI

    fixed in 0.55.1

References 1

GitHub · dgtlmoon/changedetection.io