# CVE-2026-54650: openhole-server vulnerable to path traversal via URL-decoded request path

- Also known as: GO-2026-6135, GHSA-FH2F-XFXC-Q9CC
- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.1.2
- Published: 2026-07-28 · Updated: 2026-07-29

## Affected

- bablilayoub openhole: fixed in 0.1.2
- github.com/bablilayoub/openhole (Go): fixed in 0.1.2

## Description

openhole exposes localhost to the internet in one command. In 0.1.1 and earlier, openhole-server in internal/server/public_proxy.go forwarded r.URL.Path instead of preserving the original request target with r.URL.EscapedPath(), allowing percent encoded dot segments %2e and separators %2f to reach tunneled local services as ../ and / for path traversal. This issue is fixed in version 0.1.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on bablilayoub openhole, github.com/bablilayoub/openhole, upgrade to a fixed version (0.1.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/bablilayoub/openhole/security/advisories/GHSA-fh2f-xfxc-q9cc
- https://github.com/bablilayoub/openhole/commit/a28c27adde2a7ed0c347b730c8707208c0f78ed3
- https://github.com/bablilayoub/openhole/releases/tag/v0.1.2

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