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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-5811

An authenticated path traversal vulnerability exists during package installation in Umbraco CMS <= 8.9.1 or current, which could result in arbitrary files being written outside of the site home and expected paths when installing an Umbraco package.

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CVE-2020-5811
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1 Nov 2026, 05:59 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-5811

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Dec 2020, 16:15 UTC

An authenticated path traversal vulnerability exists during package installation in Umbraco CMS <= 8.9.1 or current, which could result in arbitrary files being written outside of the site home and expected paths when installing an Umbraco package.

osv:CVE-2020-5811
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5811",
  "method": "structured",
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:34.155007842Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2020-59"
      ],
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433452,
  "published_at": "2020-12-30T16:15:12.447+00:00"
}