🛡️ CVE-2026-28518 — openviking

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 OSV
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Description

OpenViking contains a Path Traversal vulnerability

OpenViking versions 0.2.1 and prior, fixed in commit 46b3e76, contain a path traversal vulnerability in the .ovpack import handling that allows attackers to write files outside the intended import directory. Attackers can craft malicious ZIP archives with traversal sequences, absolute paths, or drive prefixes in member names to overwrite or create arbitrary files with the importing process privileges.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must actively cooperate. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-28518 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-28518 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openviking

Timeline and source

Published on 3 March 2026 and last revised on 14 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
www.vulncheck.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-03-03
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-14

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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