# CVE-2026-58192: Appium: Unauthenticated arbitrary file/directory deletion in @appium/storage-plugin

- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.1.6
- Published: 2026-07-08 · Updated: 2026-07-09

## Affected

- appium: fixed in 1.1.6

## Description

Appium is a cross-platform automation framework for all kinds of apps, built on top of the W3C WebDriver protocol. Prior to 1.1.6, the Appium storage plugin exposes POST /storage/delete, whose handler passes the user-supplied name value directly into path.join(storageRoot, name) and fs.rimraf() without path sanitization, allowing an unauthenticated remote client to escape the storage root with ../ sequences and recursively delete arbitrary writable files or directories. This issue is fixed in version 1.1.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on appium, upgrade to a fixed version (1.1.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/appium/appium/security/advisories/GHSA-jwgx-mp9m-jwcr
- https://github.com/appium/appium/pull/22362
- https://github.com/appium/appium/commit/5fee01752f2782e96fbe64fd13520b433d4a7535
- https://github.com/appium/appium/releases/tag/%40appium/storage-plugin%401.1.6

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