Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE-59
AllowedImproper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Abstraction: Base · Status: Draft
The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.
2189 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
CVE-2026-53797 (GCVE-0-2026-53797)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:40 – Updated: 2026-08-14 16:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 Symlink Race Condition Information Disclosure
Summary
rsync before 3.5.0 contains a symlink race condition vulnerability in the sender's source tree traversal that allows an attacker who can manipulate a parent directory of the source tree to redirect file reads to unintended paths. Attackers can atomically replace a parent directory component with a symlink pointing outside the source root between path resolution and file open operations to disclose file contents outside the intended transfer root.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-13 17:38 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/ad… | vendor-advisory |
| https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/ta… | release-notes |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rsync-symlin… | third-party-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RsyncProject | rsync |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 3.4.4
(semver)
Unaffected: 3.5.0 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:samba:rsync:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2026-08-12 00:00
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CVE-2026-53796 (GCVE-0-2026-53796)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:39 – Updated: 2026-08-14 16:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 TOCTOU Race Condition via Destination Directory Handling
Summary
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Severity
6.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 15:53 UTC
CWE
Assigner
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3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Affected:
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Date Public
2026-08-12 00:00
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CVE-2026-53795 (GCVE-0-2026-53795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:39 – Updated: 2026-08-14 20:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 Arbitrary File Write via --temp-dir/--link-dest
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 19:16 UTC
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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3 references
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CVE-2026-53793 (GCVE-0-2026-53793)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:38 – Updated: 2026-08-14 16:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 Path Confinement Bypass via /./ Boundary Marker in Chroot Mode
Summary
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Severity
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SSVC
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Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 15:54 UTC
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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CVE-2026-53785 (GCVE-0-2026-53785)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:34 – Updated: 2026-08-14 16:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 Path Traversal Write Escape via --relative Mode
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-13 15:27 UTC
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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CVE-2026-53784 (GCVE-0-2026-53784)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:34 – Updated: 2026-08-15 03:17
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 Path Traversal via Symlink Module Root
Summary
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-15 03:17 UTC
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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CVE-2026-53783 (GCVE-0-2026-53783)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:34 – Updated: 2026-08-14 16:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
rsync < 3.5.0 TOCTOU Race Condition Directory Escape via rrsync
Summary
rsync before 3.5.0 contains a time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability in the rrsync restricted shell wrapper that allows authenticated clients to escape enforced directory restrictions by substituting a symlink for a path component after validation but before transfer processing. Attackers can additionally leverage unrestricted flags such as --copy-unsafe-links, -D, and --log-file through rrsync to read or write files outside the permitted directory subtree.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-14 15:41 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/security/ad… | vendor-advisory |
| https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/releases/ta… | release-notes |
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| RsyncProject | rsync |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 3.4.4
(semver)
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CVE-2026-53766 (GCVE-0-2026-53766)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 21:29 – Updated: 2026-06-25 23:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
chrome-devtools-mcp: validatePath() does not canonicalize symlinks before enforcing roots
Summary
Chrome DevTools for agents (chrome-devtools-mcp) lets your coding agent control and inspect a live Chrome browser. From 0.24.0 until 1.1.0, McpContext.validatePath() enforces workspace roots by checking whether path.resolve(filePath) textually falls under one of the configured root paths. path.resolve() does not canonicalize symbolic links. As a result, a symlink inside a configured workspace root can point to a file outside that root, pass validation, and then be followed by downstream file read/write operations. This bypass applies even when the MCP client correctly declares the roots capability with a non-empty list. It is separate from the documented legacy behavior where missing roots capability allows all paths. The practical impact is a workspace-boundary bypass. In the write direction, filePath-writing tools can overwrite out-of-root files through an in-root symlink. In the read direction, upload_file can read through the symlink and send the file to the currently selected web page. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.0.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-25 23:13 UTC
CWE
Assigner
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| URL | Tags |
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| https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| ChromeDevTools | chrome-devtools-mcp |
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CVE-2026-53765 (GCVE-0-2026-53765)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 21:30 – Updated: 2026-06-26 18:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
chrome-devtools-mcp: daemon.pid write follows symlinks in /tmp fallback runtime directory
Summary
Chrome DevTools for agents (chrome-devtools-mcp) lets your coding agent control and inspect a live Chrome browser. From 0.20.0 until 1.1.0, The chrome-devtools-mcp daemon writes its PID file with fs.writeFileSync() to a deterministic runtime path. On typical macOS environments, and on Linux sessions where $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is unset, that runtime path falls back to /tmp/chrome-devtools-mcp-<uid>/daemon.pid. Because the write does not use O_NOFOLLOW, a local low-privilege user on the same POSIX host can pre-create /tmp/chrome-devtools-mcp-<victim_uid>/daemon.pid as a symlink to a file writable by the victim. When the victim later starts daemon mode, fs.writeFileSync() follows the symlink and truncates the target file to the daemon PID string. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.0.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-26 17:51 UTC
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Assigner
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1 reference
| URL | Tags |
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| https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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CVE-2026-53535 (GCVE-0-2026-53535)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 18:52 – Updated: 2026-07-17 18:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Activepieces: Arbitrary file write in git-sync via path traversal and symlinks
Summary
Activepieces is an open source AI workflow automation platform. Prior to 0.82.0, the git-sync feature clones a user-configured Git repository into a temporary directory on the server and then writes flow, table, and connection state into it before pushing back, and two separate weaknesses allowed those writes to escape the intended workspace and land on arbitrary paths on the host filesystem: Git's symbolic-link handling was not disabled on the clone, so an attacker who controlled the remote repository could include symlinks that redirected the writes, and several user-supplied identifiers used to build on-disk paths (the repository slug and the externalId of tables, flows, and connections) were not validated against directory-traversal sequences such as ../. On a self-hosted Enterprise Edition deployment, a user authorized to configure or push to a git-sync repository (holding the WRITE_PROJECT_RELEASE permission) could cause the server to overwrite files anywhere the Activepieces process user can write, which depending on host layout can be leveraged for tampering, denial of service, or remote code execution. This issue is fixed in version 0.82.0.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-17 17:15 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/secu… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/pull/12711 | x_refsource_MISC |
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Impacted products
1 product
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Mitigation MIT-48.1
Architecture and Design
Strategy: Separation of Privilege
- Follow the principle of least privilege when assigning access rights to entities in a software system.
- Denying access to a file can prevent an attacker from replacing that file with a link to a sensitive file. Ensure good compartmentalization in the system to provide protected areas that can be trusted.
CAPEC-132: Symlink Attack
An adversary positions a symbolic link in such a manner that the targeted user or application accesses the link's endpoint, assuming that it is accessing a file with the link's name.
CAPEC-17: Using Malicious Files
An attack of this type exploits a system's configuration that allows an adversary to either directly access an executable file, for example through shell access; or in a possible worst case allows an adversary to upload a file and then execute it. Web servers, ftp servers, and message oriented middleware systems which have many integration points are particularly vulnerable, because both the programmers and the administrators must be in synch regarding the interfaces and the correct privileges for each interface.
CAPEC-35: Leverage Executable Code in Non-Executable Files
An attack of this type exploits a system's trust in configuration and resource files. When the executable loads the resource (such as an image file or configuration file) the attacker has modified the file to either execute malicious code directly or manipulate the target process (e.g. application server) to execute based on the malicious configuration parameters. Since systems are increasingly interrelated mashing up resources from local and remote sources the possibility of this attack occurring is high.
CAPEC-76: Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls
An attacker manipulates inputs to the target software which the target software passes to file system calls in the OS. The goal is to gain access to, and perhaps modify, areas of the file system that the target software did not intend to be accessible.