Medium
Security advisory
ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 is prone to a path traversal flaw via ../ in a web skin name to access files outside of the intended skins directories.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-14056
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ZNC before 1.7.1-rc1 is prone to a path traversal flaw via ../ in a web skin name to access files outside of the intended skins directories.
osv:CVE-2018-14056
Complete source record
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