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Path traversal is a recurring security theme across WindowsForum discussions, appearing in advisories for Microsoft Edge for Android, Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat, and various enterprise and industrial products. These flaws typically allow attackers to read or write files outside intended directories, sometimes leading to information disclosure, authentication bypass, or arbitrary file access. Coverage includes CVE details, patching guidance, and practical implications for Windows-based systems, developer workstations, and industrial environments. The tag highlights the importance of applying vendor fixes promptly and understanding how path traversal risks affect both cloud services and local applications.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    CVE-2026-20685 Fixed in Apple PCC, No User Update Needed

    Apple has fixed CVE-2026-20685, a path-traversal flaw in Private Cloud Compute, the server-side platform that handles Apple Intelligence requests too large or complex for on-device processing. The fix is in PCC Release 5E290.3 and later, according to Apple’s release notes; this is a...
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    claude-sesh 1.1.3 Still Vulnerable Despite Source Fix

    The npm-distributed build of claude-sesh 1.1.3 remains exposed to a path traversal flaw that can disclose JSON files outside its enrichment folder, despite a source-code fix now sitting on the project’s main branch. The important distinction is deployment: the GitHub fix was committed after the...
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    CVE-2026-11917: ThinManager Fixes Path Traversal

    Rockwell Automation has issued fixes for a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in ThinManager, the centralized thin-client management platform widely used to deliver industrial visualization and application access across plant-floor devices. Tracked as CVE-2026-11917, the flaw could allow...
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    CVE-2026-48282 ColdFusion KEV: Patch Now and Hunt for Active Exploitation

    CISA added CVE-2026-48282, a critical Adobe ColdFusion path traversal vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 7, 2026, after determining that attackers are actively exploiting the flaw in the wild. The move turns what might have looked like another high-severity...
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    CVE-2026-58300 Edge for Android Path Traversal: Patch to 150.0.4078.48

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-58300 on July 3, 2026, as an Important-rated information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Edge for Android, fixed in Edge version 150.0.4078.48 and attributed by MSRC to absolute path traversal that could let an unauthenticated local attacker expose sensitive...
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    CVE-2026-45482: Path Traversal Auth Bypass in VS Code Copilot Chat

    Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-45482 on June 9, 2026, as an Important-rated security feature bypass in the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Copilot Chat extension, caused by a path traversal weakness that can let a local unauthorized attacker bypass an authentication-related security feature. The...
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    CVE-2025-3465 Path Traversal in ABB CoreSense: Patch Localhost Risk

    CISA on May 19, 2026, republished ABB’s advisory for CVE-2025-3465, a high-severity path traversal flaw in CoreSense HM and CoreSense M10 that affects worldwide deployments in food and agriculture, commercial facilities, and critical manufacturing when vulnerable local web interfaces are...
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    Siemens ROS# file_server Path Traversal (CVE-2026-41551): Patch & Harden

    On May 14, 2026, CISA republished Siemens ProductCERT advisory SSA-357982 warning that Siemens ROS# versions before 2.2.2 contain a critical path traversal flaw in the file_server ROS service that can let a remote, unauthenticated attacker read and write arbitrary files with the service user’s...
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    CVE-2026-41612: VS Code Live Preview Path Traversal Info Leak (Fixed in 0.4.19)

    Microsoft published CVE-2026-41612 on May 12, 2026, describing an Important-severity information disclosure flaw in the Visual Studio Code Live Preview extension that stems from relative path traversal and is fixed in version 0.4.19. The bug is not a dramatic remote-code-execution headline, and...
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    CVE-2026-40024 Path Traversal in Sleuth Kit tsk_recover: Mitigation & Impact

    CVE-2026-40024 is a path traversal vulnerability in The Sleuth Kit’s tsk_recover tool that can let an attacker write files outside the intended recovery directory by abusing crafted filenames or directory paths inside a filesystem image. Public vulnerability databases describe the issue as...
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    Vim zip.vim Path Traversal CVE-2026-35177: Conditional Exploit Risks

    Vim’s zip.vim plugin is back in the spotlight because Microsoft’s security guidance for CVE-2026-35177 describes a path traversal flaw that can be abused only when an attacker can shape conditions around the victim’s workflow, rather than triggering the bug outright at will. That distinction...
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    CVE-2026-3479: pkgutil.get_data Path Traversal Fix in CPython

    A newly disclosed Python security issue, tracked as CVE-2026-3479, shows that pkgutil.get_data() did not enforce the path-safety rules its documentation promised. In practice, that meant callers could pass resource names that enabled path traversal instead of being constrained to a...
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    CVE-2026-23942: Potential SFTP Root Escape in Erlang ssh_sftpd

    A new SFTP vulnerability reported under the identifier CVE-2026-23942 claims a root escape in the Erlang/OTP SFTP server implementation (ssh_sftpd) that stems from a component‑agnostic prefix check in path handling — but as of March 17, 2026, there is no publicly accessible, authoritative...
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    CVE-2026-1703: Pip Wheel Extraction Path Traversal Bug and Patch

    A subtle bug in pip’s wheel extraction logic has produced CVE‑2026‑1703 — a limited path‑traversal flaw that can allow specially crafted wheel (zip) archives to place files outside the intended installation directory during a normal pip install. The defect is narrowly scoped — the traversal is...
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    CVE-2026-31802 Drive Relative Path Traversal in node-tar Fixed 7.5.11

    A newly disclosed vulnerability in the ubiquitous Node.js tar library can be coaxed into creating symlinks that point outside the intended extraction directory by using a drive-relative link target (for example, C:../../../target.txt), enabling an attacker-supplied archive to overwrite files...
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    Vitess Path Traversal in Backup Restore Fixed in v22.0.4 and v23.0.3 (CVE-2026-27969)

    Vitess maintainers have confirmed a serious path traversal vulnerability in the project’s backup restore path that allows anyone with write access to backup storage to cause a restore operation to write files to arbitrary locations on the host where Vitess runs — a risk that can lead to data...
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    Erlang TFTP CVE-2026-21620 Path Traversal: Patch and Harden Now

    A subtle but dangerous weakness has been disclosed in the TFTP implementation shipped with Erlang/OTP: CVE-2026-21620 is a relative path traversal flaw in the tftp_file module that can allow remote clients to read from or write to files outside the intended document root. The issue arises from...
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    CVE-2025-15577 Unauthenticated Path Traversal in Valmet DNA Web Tools

    Valmet DNA Engineering Web Tools are vulnerable to an unauthenticated path-traversal flaw (CVE-2025-15577) that allows attackers to manipulate a web maintenance service URL and read arbitrary files from affected systems — a risk that is particularly acute for organizations that run Valmet DNA in...
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    CVE-2023-49569 Path Traversal in go-git: Patch and Mitigation Guide

    The discovery of CVE-2023-49569 exposed a strikingly dangerous gap in a widely used pure-Go Git library: maliciously crafted Git server replies can trigger a path traversal flaw in go-git clients that, in the worst case, enables full remote code execution (RCE) on hosts that consume untrusted...
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    CVE-2025-53906: Vim zip.vim Path Traversal and Azure Linux Attestation

    The Vim editor contains a path‑traversal flaw in its zip.vim plugin (CVE‑2025‑53906) that can let a specially crafted ZIP archive cause Vim to write files outside the intended directory — and while Microsoft has publicly attested that Azure Linux includes the vulnerable component, that...