CVE-2026-55168

medium

Description

Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated attacker can plant user-config/app.env as a symlink to an arbitrary reachable path and then send PUT /api/user-config/demoapp3:_user with attacker-controlled appEnv content. FilesystemService.writeTextFile() follows the planted link, allowing content to be written outside the intended restore and user-config directory boundary with Runtipi process permissions. This issue is fixed in version 4.10.1.

References

https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi/security/advisories/GHSA-wcrf-g9p9-2wg7

https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi/releases/tag/v4.10.1

https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi/pull/2606

https://github.com/runtipi/runtipi/commit/df529a211b05f3a0007b209b6c337f8c1942619c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-21

Updated: 2026-08-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00448