CVE-2026-72567

CRITICAL 9.8

deepwiki-open - Unauthenticated Path Traversal Leading to Arbitrary File Write and Delete

CVSS Score

9.8

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

An improper path validation vulnerability in AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open through commit 16f35a0 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to write to or delete arbitrary files with root privileges. The api/api.py wiki-cache endpoint constructs file paths from user-controlled owner, repo, and repo_type fields without sanitization, enabling path traversal.

CWE	CWE-22
Vendor	asyncfuncai
Product	deepwiki-open
Published	Aug 10, 2026
Last Updated	Aug 10, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Affected Versions

AsyncFuncAI / deepwiki-open

0 ≤ 16f35a0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open github.com: https://github.com/AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open/blob/main/api/api.py

Credits

Bobur Abdugafforov