CVE•Published 2026-08-25•Modified 2026-08-31•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-72696
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.4
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
4
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 96% of all CVEs
Description
Grav CMS before 2.0.16 contains a symlink following vulnerability in Scheduler Job::createLockFile() that allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by pre-creating symlinks at predictable lock file paths in the world-writable temp directory. Attackers can place a symlink at the predictable lock path pointing to any file the web server process can write to, and the next scheduled job run will follow the symlink and overwrite the target file's content with the job ID string.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-25
Modified 2026-08-31
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