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TI-2026-59332 Aliases CVE-2026-86775GHSA-h5q7-w9w4-9hcf

knowns before 0.30.0 Path Traversal via Document API

Priority MEDIUM 45CWE-22Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · High · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

knowns (npm package) versions <= 0.29.1 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the Document API. The HTTP handler in internal/server/routes/docs.go normalizes the user-supplied document path with cleanDocPath(), which strips leading/trailing slashes and the .md suffix but does not neutralize ../ traversal sequences, and internal/storage/doc_store.go then builds the target path with filepath.Join(ds.docsDir(), filepath.FromSlash(doc.Path)+".md") without verifying that the resolved path remains inside the documents directory. In the default deployment, where the Management API is unauthenticated and bound to all interfaces, a remote unauthenticated attacker can supply a traversal payload (for example {"path": "../../../../tmp/knowns_pwn_marker"} to POST /api/docs, or an encoded path to GET /api/docs/...) to read, create, overwrite, or delete arbitrary files with a .md extension anywhere on the host filesystem and to create arbitrary directories via os.MkdirAll. This can expose sensitive data stored in other projects' documentation, corrupt or destroy files, and provide an arbitrary-write primitive that may be chained toward code execution. The issue is fixed in version 0.30.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00747 55th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed knowns (knowns-dev): 0.30.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
knowns-devknownsbefore 0.30.00.30.0Patch availableCNA
  • knowns Vendorknowns-dev Affected before 0.30.0 Fixed in 0.30.0 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA knowns (knowns-dev) Fixed in 0.30.0

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-86775
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h5q7-w9w4-9hcf

References

  • TI-2026-60300 knowns through 0.33.0 Authorization Bypass via project.set Bootstrap Exemption CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-60298 knowns through 0.33.0 Path Traversal via Template Engine CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
  • TI-2026-59217 knowns before 0.30.0 Arbitrary Code Execution via LSP Binary CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.5
  • TI-2026-60301 knowns through 0.33.0 Arbitrary Directory Enumeration via workspace browse endpoint CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
  • TI-2026-60299 knowns through 0.33.0 Path Traversal via code.find MCP tool CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
  • TI-2026-60283 knowns before 0.31.0 External Control of Agent Working Directory via x-opencode-directory Header CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
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