highCVSS 7.1Vulnerability
CVE-2026-6855
A flaw was found in InstructLab. A local attacker could exploit a path traversal vulnerability in the chat session handler by manipulating the `logs_dir` parameter. This allows the attacker to create new directories and write files to arbitrary locations on the system, potentially leading to unauthorized data modification or disclosure.
Properties
- summary
- InstructLab vulnerable to Path Traversal
- severity
- high
- epss_score
- 0.00164
- cvss_score
- 7.1
- ghsa_published
- 2026-04-22T15:31:40Z
- source_url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pqmg-c2j8-fq92
- ghsa_updated
- 2026-04-29T22:02:44Z
- ghsa_id
- GHSA-pqmg-c2j8-fq92
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-6855
- cvss_vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- is_ghsa_only
- false
- epss_percentile
- 0.05842
Related Entities (5)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
REPORTED_BY (1)
→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database
VULNERABLE_TO (1)
←[Software]pip/instructlab
AFFECTS (1)
→[Software]pip/instructlab
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
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