Vulnerability · Published Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2026-79318

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

web2py 3.2.2-stable (commit a7330a2bf21219fa77860b6665de927dd4f98e6d) is vulnerable to Directory Traversal in read_file()/write_file() (applications/admin/controllers/webservices.py).

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

https://github.com/web2py/web2py
https://github.com/lichoin/TraceLoom/blob/main/CVEs/CVE-2026-79318.md