{"id":"CVE-2026-29778","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-29778","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:11:09.705Z","title":"The current protection relies on a single-pass string replacement of \"../\", which can be bypassed using crafted recursive traversal sequences.","description":"pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. From version 0.5.0b3.dev13 to 0.5.0b3.dev96, the edit_package() function implements insufficient sanitization for the pack_folder parameter. The current protection relies on a single-pass string replacement of \"../\", which can be bypassed using crafted recursive traversal sequences. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.0b3.dev97.","published":"2026-03-07T16:15:55.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:29:52.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-23"],"affected":["pyload-ng project/pyload-ng"],"epss":{"score":0.00538,"percentile":0.45061,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/pyload/pyload/security/advisories/GHSA-6px9-j4qr-xfjw","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29778","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}