CVE-2026-40024

Description

The Sleuth Kit through 4.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in tsk_recover that allows an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations outside the intended recovery directory via crafted filenames or directory paths with path traversal sequences in a filesystem image. An attacker can craft a malicious filesystem image with embedded /../ sequences in filenames that, when processed by tsk_recover, writes files outside the output directory, potentially achieving code execution by overwriting shell configuration or cron entries.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/sleuth-kit-tsk-recover-path-traversal

https://mobasi.ai/sentinel

https://github.com/sleuthkit/sleuthkit/commit/a3f96b3bc36a8bb1a00c297f77110d4a6e7dd31b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

CVSS v4

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