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CVE-2026-55825GHSA-GRM4-WM43-9JH5

Contao: Possible path traversal in job download URIs

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.7.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Contao is an Open Source CMS. In versions 5.7.0 through 5.7.6, an authenticated backend user who can access one job can request an attachment identifier containing ../ segments and make the job attachment download endpoint read a file from another job directory inside var/job-attachments. The controller authorizes only the jobUuid route parameter. The later attachment lookup joins that authorized job UUID with the attacker-controlled identifier, then passes the combined path to the virtual filesystem. VirtualFilesystem::resolve() canonicalizes the whole path and only rejects paths that escape the filesystem mount, so authorized-job/../victim-job/debug_log.csv becomes victim-job/debug_log.csv. This is a cross-job authorization bypass for known job attachment paths. It is not a practical brute-force against unknown jobs because job directories are UUID v4 values.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • contao contao

    From 5.7.0 · fixed in 5.7.7

  • contao/contaoPackagist

    From 5.7.0 · fixed in 5.7.7

  • contao/core-bundlePackagist

    From 5.7.0 · fixed in 5.7.7

References 1

GitHub · contao/contao