High
Security advisory
uWSGI before 2.0.17 mishandles a DOCUMENT_ROOT check during use of the --php-docroot option, allowing directory traversal.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-7490
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:23 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
uWSGI before 2.0.17 mishandles a DOCUMENT_ROOT check during use of the --php-docroot option, allowing directory traversal.
osv:CVE-2018-7490
Complete source record
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