CVE-2026-71492CWE-22path-traversal

CVE-2026-71492

published August 20, 2026

CVSS
6.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Banks generates meaningful LLM prompts using a simple template language. Prior to version 2.4.5, DirectoryPromptRegistry.set() in src/banks/registries/directory.py interpolates attacker-controlled Prompt.name and Prompt.version values into a Path without canonicalization or containment validation. Relative traversal such as ../victim/foo and an absolute Prompt.name can escape or discard the configured registry root, while overwrite=True permits replacement of existing target files. The poisoned name is persisted in index.json and reconstructed by _load(), allowing the out-of-root path to survive later registry loads. An application that forwards request data into these fields can therefore write Prompt.raw bytes to attacker-chosen paths writable by the application process. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
6.0 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
6.0 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00474 · 40.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2026-08-20T21:19Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 AUG 16:13Z
    Banks: Path traversal in `DirectoryPromptRegistry.set()` allows arbitrary file write outside the registry root
    cvelistv5