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1 vulnerability found for answer-me-with-html by QingYunA
CVE-2026-108723 (GCVE-0-2026-108723)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-11 12:19
Modified
2026-10-18 11:53
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Summary
answer-me-with-html through 0.5.0 contains a link following vulnerability in the am CLI code block src= embedding, where localPath() checks only path text without resolving symlinks. Attackers can ship a repository with a symlink pointing outside the checkout so am render embeds readable external files into generated HTML, disclosing them when shared.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QingYunA | answer-me-with-html |
Version: 0 ≤ 0.5.0 |
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