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1 vulnerability found for opam by OCaml

CVE-2026-41082 (GCVE-0-2026-41082)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-16 17:32
Modified
2026-07-15 01:00
CWE
  • CWE-24 - Path Traversal: '../filedir'
Summary
In OCaml opam before 2.5.1, a .install field containing a destination filepath can use ../ to reach a parent directory.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OCaml opam Version: 0   
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