Pathling has path traversal in $import-pnp manifest that enables read-capable SSRF via /jobs/{jobId}/{filename}
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-22 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
Pathling is a set of tools that make it easier to use FHIR and clinical terminology within health data analytics. Prior to version 2.0.0 of Pathling Server, Pathling's `/$result` endpoint allows a caller who can obtain any valid async export job ID to supply `file` parameter values containing path traversal sequences. The handler verifies only the supplied `job` and never normalises or confines the requested `file` path to that job's `jobs/<jobId>` directory before opening it as a filesystem resource. Because async export scratch space lives under the same warehouse database root as persisted resource tables, an attacker can use their own export job to read other files from the warehouse. This is fixed in Pathling Server 2.0.0. The `$result` handler now resolves and canonicalizes the requested file path and rejects any request that escapes the job's `jobs/<jobId>` directory. As an interim mitigation, disable the async export operations (`pathling.operations.exportEnabled`, `patientExportEnabled`, `groupExportEnabled`, `bulkSubmitEnabled`) or enable authentication and restrict export capability to trusted callers.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA pathling (aehrc) Fixed in 2.0.0
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-47659
- 2026-11-04 EPSS moved to the 50th–90th percentile
More aehrc vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-35170 Pathling: Typed CRUD/search/batch providers can lead to server-wide PHI exfiltration and cross-resource mutation CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-35169 Improper input validation in aehrc pathling CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-35171 Pathling: $import-pnp operation enables authenticated SSRF, credential leakage, and warehouse data poisoning CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-35168 Pathling has path traversal in $result endpoint that allows arbitrary warehouse file read CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-35167 Pathling: Explicit oauthMetadataUrl in bulk-submit allows OAuth client credential exfiltration CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
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