CVE-2026-49453

high

Description

Joplin is an open source note-taking and to-do application that organises notes and lists into notebooks. Prior to 3.6.15 and 3.7.2, Joplin accepts synchronized resource metadata whose id or file_extension contains parent-directory or path-separator characters. BaseItem.unserialize() stores the unvalidated fields, resourceFilename() concatenates them into a destination path, and ResourceFetcher writes the attacker-controlled resource blob outside the resource directory during background synchronization. An attacker with write access to a configured sync target or shared notebook can create or overwrite files at an attacker-chosen existing path without user interaction. This issue is fixed in versions 3.6.15 and 3.7.2.

References

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/security/advisories/GHSA-r24r-gp6h-cwgf

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/15672

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/pull/15540

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/50518073740c4501058e366300b42c2f1925cb05

https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/commit/18e0b08c282c89ae51612c4eff67af2a45ff5163

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00288