CVE-2026-105314 (GCVE-0-2026-105314)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-05 07:28
Modified
2026-10-06 17:41
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-24 - Path Traversal: '../filedir'
Summary
Papermerge 3.5.3 allows remote code execution by a standard user via directory traversal in a /api/documents/upload call. A Python .pth file can be written to site-packages, and its code is executed upon the next start of the Python interpreter.
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Impacted products
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Papermerge Papermerge Version: 3.5.3   ≤
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