{"id":"CVE-2026-77621","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-77621","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:17:00.397Z","title":"When an untrusted source supplies an event field used by the path template, the value can contain an absolute path or parent-directory traversal, causing Vector to create parent directories and create or overwrite files outside the intended location…","description":"Vector is a high-performance observability data pipeline. From 0.10.0 until 0.57.0, the file sink renders its templated path from event fields and opens the result without confining it to an intended directory. When an untrusted source supplies an event field used by the path template, the value can contain an absolute path or parent-directory traversal, causing Vector to create parent directories and create or overwrite files outside the intended location with the Vector process privileges. The resulting file write can modify sensitive files and can lead to code execution when a scheduled task, authorization file, or subsequently executed script is targeted. This issue is fixed in version 0.57.0.","published":"2026-09-22T16:17:56.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-26T00:16:36.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"security-advisories@github.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":9.3,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-22","CWE-73"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.01124,"percentile":0.66039,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-23","score":0.01124,"percentile":0.64862}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.12%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-22T16:17:56.000Z","detail":{"score":"9.3","severity":"CRITICAL","publishedAt":"2026-09-22T16:17:55.670Z"},"summary":"New CVE, critical severity (CVSS 9.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/commit/6951064ed1d295fbff67a5ba7da5971fc6f58c46","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/commit/8832452f57afb536ea0de53a093f9fd1b669ccec","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/pull/25820","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/pull/25830","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/releases/tag/v0.57.0","source":"security-advisories@github.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector/security/advisories/GHSA-6342-xwvw-c637","source":"security-advisories@github.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77621","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."}