Path traversal in Canonical Juju
Priority LOW 23CWE-22Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-22 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
An authenticated user who has read access to the juju controller model, may construct a remote request to download an arbitrary file from the controller's filesystem.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00636 50th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Juju (Canonical Ltd.): 3.0.3github.com/juju/juju (Go): 2.9.38, 3.0.3
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | Juju | 2.9.22 to before 2.9.38; 3.0.0 to before 3.0.3; 2.9.38 to before 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/juju/juju (Go) | 2.9.22 to before 2.9.38 | 2.9.38 | Patch available | GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8 |
| — | github.com/juju/juju (Go) | 3.0.0 to before 3.0.3 | 3.0.3 | Patch available | GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8 |
- Juju VendorCanonical Affected 2.9.22 to before 2.9.38; 3.0.0 to before 3.0.3; 2.9.38 to before 3.0.3 Fixed in 3.0.3 Patch available CNA
- github.com/juju/juju (Go) Vendor— Affected 2.9.22 to before 2.9.38 Fixed in 2.9.38 Patch available GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8
- github.com/juju/juju (Go) Vendor— Affected 3.0.0 to before 3.0.3 Fixed in 3.0.3 Patch available GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Juju (Canonical Ltd.) Fixed in 3.0.3
- Fix · GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8 github.com/juju/juju (Go) Fixed in 2.9.38 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8 github.com/juju/juju (Go) Fixed in 3.0.3 Advisory →
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-0092
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8
- 2026-10-30 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
References
Advisory 2
More Canonical Juju vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-03806 Improper TLS Client/Server authentication and certificate verification on Database Cluster CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2025-33458 Zip slip vulnerability in Juju CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2025-00786 Arbitrary executable upload via authenticated endpoint CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2017-06681 Juju before 1.25.12, 2.0.x before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.3 uses a UNIX domain socket… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-25186 Insecure Direct Object Reference attack via predictable secret ID in Juju CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.6
- TI-2025-41733 Juju: Resource poisoning CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
Sources
- CVE-2023-0092 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-0092 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x5rv-w9pm-8qp8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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