CVE•Published 2026-06-18•Modified 2026-06-22•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-48716

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
8.7
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
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Description

nanobot is a personal AI assistant. In versions 0.1.5.post3 and prior, the WhatsApp bridge in bridge/src/whatsapp.ts constructs a filesystem path using the fileName field from an incoming WhatsApp document message without sanitization. The WhatsApp bridge downloads media attachments and writes them to disk using a filename derived from the sender's message via documentMessage.fileName, which is concatenated with a prefix and its raw value is passed directly to path.join(mediaDir, outFilename). Node.js path.join resolves .. components, allowing an attacker to escape the intended media/ directory by sending a document with a crafted fileName such as ../../../.ssh/authorized_keys. Because the attacker also controls the file content (the downloaded buffer), this is a write-anywhere primitive — both path and content are attacker-controlled. A fix for this issue is planned for version 0.1.5.post4.

Timeline
Published 2026-06-18
Modified 2026-06-22

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Known PoCs on GitHub

No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-48716 on GitHub.