Medium

Flight: Path traversal in `make:controller` CLI creates arbitrary directories outside project root

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Flight is an extensible micro-framework for PHP. Prior to 3.18.1, the make:controller CLI command calls mkdir(..., recursive: true) on a path built from the user-supplied controller name, before Nette's class-name validation runs. The class-file write is correctly rejected by Nette when the name contains /, but the recursive directory creation side effect is already committed — including directories located outside the project root through ../ traversal. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.18.1.

Products: Not specified
Affected versions: Not specified
Fixed versions: Not specified
CVEs: CVE-2026-42549
Confirmed fixed CVEs: Not specified
Updated in this feed: 5 Nov 2026, 03:49 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Flight: Path traversal in `make:controller` CLI creates arbitrary directories outside project root

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 May 2026, 19:22 UTC

osv:CVE-2026-42549

Complete source record

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