Vulnerability · Published Apr 3, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-26058Zulip: Path Traversal in Import
Medium 6.1
In plain English
A medium-severity path traversal in zulip from zulip. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 84.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Zulip is an open-source team collaboration tool. From version 1.4.0 to before version 11.6, ./manage.py import reads arbitrary files from the server filesystem via path traversal in uploads/records.json. A crafted export tarball causes the server to copy any file the zulip user can read into the uploads directory during import. This issue has been patched in version 11.6.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
References
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-xm5c-c6mp-3956 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/2df49e7750ce3fc49ef1d44b1c4ece654d4b754c x_refsource_MISC