CWE-59— Improper Link Resolution Before File Access (Link Following)
The product attempts to access a file based on the filename, but it does not properly prevent that filename from identifying a link or shortcut that resolves to an unintended resource.— MITRE CWE catalog
1,705 active CVEs classified under this weakness category. Sourced from NVD, GHSA, and vendor advisories. Full definition on MITRE →
CVEs classified under CWE-59page 33 of 35
- CVE-2026-61792HIGHCVSS 7.7EG 7.72026-08-26
Weblate is a web-based continuous localization platform used to manage software translations. In versions prior to 2026.7, a project administrator can read files outside their repository through the App store metadata download feature, whi…
- CVE-2026-61858MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-07-11
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in the APNG encoder and external delegates due to missing validation checks. Attackers can write files to disallowed paths by bypassing configured policy restrictions throu…
- CVE-2026-61859LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32026-07-15
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-x before 6.9.13-51 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in the -script operation due to missing security policy checks. This allows reading files from paths that are otherwise disallowed by the conf…
- CVE-2026-62189HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-07-13
OpenClaw versions before 2026.6.9 contain a symlink following vulnerability in the mirror sync feature that allows lower-trust callers to perform actions requiring stronger authorization. Attackers can exploit remote symlink parents to byp…
- CVE-2026-62239MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62026-07-13
FlashAttention through 2.8.3.post1, fixed in commit 0816ef1, contains a symlink attack vulnerability in the download_and_copy() function within hopper/setup.py that extracts NVIDIA toolchain archives without validating symlinks or filterin…
- CVE-2026-62761HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows DHCP Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-62776HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows DHCP Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-62803HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows DHCP Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-62807HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows DHCP Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-62812HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows DHCP Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-62832HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows User Profile Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-63125CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-21
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 7.3.0, an unprivileged, project-confined Incus user (a non-admin TLS/RBAC identity with `can_create_images` and `can_create_instances`) can execute arbitrary code as…
- CVE-2026-63293CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-12
A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary file read and write operations on the host system. When importing or unpacking an image archive, LXD fails to validate whether the metadata.yaml file is a symbol…
- CVE-2026-63294CRITICALCVSS 9.9EG 9.92026-08-12
A link following vulnerability in LXD allows an attacker to achieve root command execution on the host system. During the import or unpacking of crafted image or backup archives, LXD fails to properly validate and confine the backup.yaml f…
- CVE-2026-63426HIGHCVSS 7.1EG 7.12026-08-13
During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo Dock Manager that could allow an authenticated local user to perform an arbitrary file deletion with elevated privileges.
- CVE-2026-63622HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-08-10
A flaw was found in libvirt. A local attacker, specifically a process running as the confined `swtpm` user, could exploit a symlink-following vulnerability in the `virFileChownFiles()` function. By planting a symbolic link within the `swtp…
- CVE-2026-64613MEDIUMCVSS 6.2EG 6.22026-07-21
Data::Buffer::Shared versions before 0.05 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in buf_generic.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666). O_EXCL blocks a pre-seeded …
- CVE-2026-64614LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::Deque::Shared versions before 0.06 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in deque.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under the …
- CVE-2026-64615LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32026-07-21
Data::Graph::Shared versions before 0.04 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in graph.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under the …
- CVE-2026-64616LOWCVSS 3.3EG 3.32026-07-21
Data::NDArray::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in ndarray.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under …
- CVE-2026-64617LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::PubSub::Shared versions before 0.07 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in pubsub.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under th…
- CVE-2026-65061LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::ReqRep::Shared versions before 0.05 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in reqrep.h with open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT, 0666), for both the request-reply …
- CVE-2026-65062LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::SortedSet::Shared versions before 0.03 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in sortedset.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so un…
- CVE-2026-65063LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::RadixTree::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in radix.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under …
- CVE-2026-65064LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::HashMap::Shared versions before 0.14 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in shm_generic.h with open(path, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_CLOEXEC, 0666). The mode …
- CVE-2026-65065MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-07-21
Data::RoaringBitmap::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in roaring.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so …
- CVE-2026-65066LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::RingBuffer::Shared versions before 0.04 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in ring.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under …
- CVE-2026-65067LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::Intern::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in intern.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under th…
- CVE-2026-65068LOWCVSS 3.8EG 3.82026-07-21
Data::SpatialHash::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in sphash.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so und…
- CVE-2026-65069MEDIUMCVSS 4.0EG 4.02026-07-21
Data::DisjointSet::Shared versions before 0.02 for Perl create a world-readable mmap backing file and open it without O_EXCL or O_NOFOLLOW. The segment is created in dsu.h with open(path, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666). The mode is 0666, so under …
- CVE-2026-65647HIGHCVSS 8.7EG 8.72026-08-26
Improper symlink resolution before file access in Plesk allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code as root.
- CVE-2026-65680MEDIUMCVSS 6.7EG 6.72026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Microsoft OneDrive allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-66153HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02026-08-25
The NEService auto-upgrade process insecurely handles temporary files in SonicWall NetExtender Linux client which allows an attacker to manipulate file paths.
- CVE-2026-67368HIGHCVSS 8.8EG 8.82026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in SQL Server allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
- CVE-2026-67433MEDIUMCVSS 5.8EG 5.82026-07-29
Linuxfabrik monitoring-plugins provides Python monitoring plugins for Icinga, Nagios, and related monitoring systems. In version 6.0.0, the logfile check legacy database migration moved a predictable path from /tmp with os.rename() and all…
- CVE-2026-68491CRITICALCVSS 9.4EG 9.42026-09-15
An insufficient check allowed for the overwrite of arbitrary files via a symlink.
- CVE-2026-6851HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02026-07-14
An Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') vulnerability in the File Shredder module as used in Bitdefender Total Security and Internet Security on Windows allows a less-privileged local user to elevate rights by lev…
- CVE-2026-68830MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Device Host allows an authorized attacker to disclose information locally.
- CVE-2026-6891MEDIUMCVSS 5.0EG 5.02026-05-28
Improper handling of symbolic links in the installer of My Image Garden for macOS Version 3.6.8 or earlier may allow a local attacker with login privileges to exploit a specially crafted symbolic link during installation to modify permissi…
- CVE-2026-6892MEDIUMCVSS 5.0EG 5.02026-05-29
Improper handling of symbolic links in the installer of CUPS Printer Driver for macOS(*) may allow a local attacker with login privileges to exploit a specially crafted symbolic link during installation to modify permissions of directories…
- CVE-2026-69289HIGHCVSS 7.8EG 7.82026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Setup Files Cleanup allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-69379HIGHCVSS 7.0EG 7.02026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows NTFS allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
- CVE-2026-6941MEDIUMCVSS 6.6EG 6.62026-04-23
radare2 prior to 6.1.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability in its project notes handling that allows attackers to read or write files outside the configured project directory by importing a malicious .zrp archive containing a symlinked…
- CVE-2026-69425MEDIUMCVSS 4.7EG 4.72026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows NTFS allows an authorized attacker to perform tampering locally.
- CVE-2026-6959MEDIUMCVSS 6.0EG 6.02026-05-12
HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 are vulnerable to arbitrary file read and write on the client host as the Nomad process user through a symlink attack. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-6959) is fixed in Nomad 2.0.1, 1.11.5 a…
- CVE-2026-69771MEDIUMCVSS 4.7EG 4.72026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Container Manager Service allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
- CVE-2026-70348MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52026-08-11
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Management Services allows an authorized attacker to deny service locally.
- CVE-2026-70427MEDIUMCVSS 4.3EG 4.32026-08-05
Jenkins 2.575 and earlier, LTS 2.568.1 and earlier does not safely handle symbolic links with effectively empty names during the extraction of `.tar` and `.tar.gz` archives, allowing attackers able to control agent processes to provide cra…
- CVE-2026-70460HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-08-13
rsync 2.3.3 before 3.5.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows a malicious sender to escape the module root by exploiting symlinks within the module file tree when using --partial-dir or --backup-dir options. Attackers with …
- CVE-2026-70563HIGHCVSS 8.1EG 8.12026-09-08
Improper link resolution before file access ('link following') in Windows Shell allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network.
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