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Relative Path Traversal

CVE-2025-49466

Medium
5.8/10

Summary

aerc before 93bec0d allows directory traversal in commands/msgview/open.go because of direct path concatenation of the name of an attachment part,

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  • CHANGED
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CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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