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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-13864

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 05:42 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-13864

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Jul 2018, 12:29 UTC

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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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.559347314Z",
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