CVE-2026-50553CWE-20CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-50553

published September 4, 2026

CVSS
8.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Note Mark is an open-source note-taking application. Prior to version 0.19.5, Note Mark validates book and note slug values with the OpenAPI/huma tag pattern:"[a-z0-9-]+". huma compiles this with regexp.MustCompile(s.Pattern) and tests it with patternRe.MatchString(str), an UNANCHORED match. Because the pattern is not anchored (^...$), any string that merely CONTAINS one [a-z0-9-] substring passes validation. A slug such as ../../../../../../tmp/escape is accepted and stored verbatim. The data-export CLI commands (note-mark migrate export and note-mark migrate export-v1) join these unsanitized slugs straight into the output path with path.Join / filepath.Join, then os.MkdirAll the directory and os.Create the note file. path.Join resolves the ../ segments, so the note content file is written OUTSIDE the configured export directory. The export process commonly runs as root (default in Docker / bare-metal admin usage), so this is a root-privilege arbitrary directory create + file write. This issue has been patched in version 0.19.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
8.6 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00379 · 30.9th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation; CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-09-04T22:17Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 SEP 03:32Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 04 SEP 17:25Z
    Note Mark: Path traversal via unsanitized book/note slug in migrate export (sibling of GHSA-g49p)
    cvelistv5