Path Traversal in Altium Vault ScriptsController Allows Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-306.
Summary
Two endpoints in the Vault Service ScriptsController, shared by Altium Enterprise Server and Altium 365, accept file uploads where a user-supplied filename component is used to construct the destination path without validation, allowing arbitrary files to be written to any location writable by the service account. Because the file write operation completes before authentication is validated, the vulnerability can be exploited without any credentials, session, or prior knowledge of the system. An unauthenticated network attacker can use this primitive to place executable content in directories where it is later executed by the service, resulting in remote code execution under the Vault Service account. Altium Enterprise Server is fixed in 8.1.1; the issue has been remediated in Altium 365 (commercial and government cloud) at the service level.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Altium Enterprise Server (Altium) Fixed in 8.1.1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Altium Enterprise Server 8.1.1
7 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 6 MEDIUM, 1 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-09855 Path Traversal in Altium Enterprise Server NIS Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write and File ReadPriority MEDIUM 50
- TI-2026-09854 Path Traversal in Altium Enterprise Server Vault UploadController Allows Arbitrary File WritePriority MEDIUM 49
- TI-2026-09851 Path traversal in Altium Enterprise ServerPriority MEDIUM 49
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-11429
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f7c8-3j67-9q8x
More Altium vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-62547 Server-Side Request Forgery in Altium Enterprise Server UnifiedLogin Service Allows Unauthenticated System Compromise CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-09855 Path Traversal in Altium Enterprise Server NIS Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Write and File Read CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-09854 Path Traversal in Altium Enterprise Server Vault UploadController Allows Arbitrary File Write CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-09851 Path traversal in Altium Enterprise Server CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-08047 Unauthenticated SOAP Endpoint in Altium 365 SearchService Allows Cross-Tenant Data Exfiltration and Index Destruction CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2025-20220 SQL Injection in AES Due to Inactive SQL Parsing Configuration CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-11429 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-11429 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-f7c8-3j67-9q8x · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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