# CVE-2026-90932: LaraDashboard 0.9.2 through 1.2.2 Path Traversal RCE

- Also known as: GHSA-G48H-H5PC-396J
- Severity: CVSS 8.6 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.3.0
- Published: 2026-09-14 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Affected

- laradashboard: from 0.9.2, fixed in 1.3.0

## Description

LaraDashboard versions 0.9.2 through 1.2.2 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the core-upgrade backup handling. CoreUpgradeController and BackupService (e.g. BackupService::deleteBackup()) concatenate the user-supplied backup_file/filename value directly onto the backup directory path without normalisation, without applying basename(), and without verifying that the resolved path remains inside storage/app/core-backups; the corresponding form requests only validate the value as a bounded string. An authenticated user holding only the delegated settings.edit permission (not Superadmin) can supply ../ traversal sequences to delete arbitrary files reachable on the host filesystem, including outside the application tree, or to restore a ZIP archive from an arbitrary on-disk location, writing arbitrary files into the application directories and achieving remote code execution. Note: the advisory states the vulnerable concatenation was introduced in the v0.9.7 release line. Fixed in 1.3.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on laradashboard, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/laradashboard/laradashboard/security/advisories/GHSA-g48h-h5pc-396j
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/laradashboard-0.9.2-through-1.2.2-path-traversal-rce
- https://github.com/capivara-research/CVE-2026-90932

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