CVE-2026-42085 (GCVE-0-2026-42085)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-04 17:13
Modified
2026-05-04 18:47
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Summary
OpenC3 COSMOS provides the functionality needed to send commands to and receive data from one or more embedded systems. Prior to versions 6.10.5 and 7.0.0-rc3, OpenC3 COSMOS contains a design flaw in the save_tool_config() function that allows saving tool configuration files at arbitrary locations inside the shared /plugins directory tree by supplying crafted configuration filenames. Although the implementation sufficiently mitigates standard path traversal attacks, by canonicalizing filename to an absolute path, all plugins share this same root directory. That enables users to create arbitrary file structures and overwrite existing configuration files within the shared /plugins directory. This issue has been patched in versions 6.10.5 and 7.0.0-rc3.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenC3 cosmos Version: < 6.10.5
Version: >= 7.0.0.pre.rc1, < 7.0.0-rc3
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