High
Security advisory
A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in the Assets controller in Play Framework 2.6.12 through 2.6.15 (fixed in 2.6.16) when running on Windows. It allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files from the target server via specially crafted HTTP requests.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-13864
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in the Assets controller in Play Framework 2.6.12 through 2.6.15 (fixed in 2.6.16) when running on Windows. It allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files from the target server via specially crafted HTTP requests.
osv:CVE-2018-13864
Complete source record
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