Intel

AIKIDO-2026-11085

dulwich is vulnerable to Path Traversal

Path Traversal Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Jun 5, 2026

81

High Risk

This Affects:

PYTHONdulwich
1.2.0 - 1.2.5
Fixed in 1.2.6
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TL;DR

Several dulwich work-tree update paths did not fully enforce core.protectNTFS and core.protectHFS, so a crafted branch merged or pulled via update_working_tree could still materialize NTFS-unsafe names such as git~2 even after the 1.2.5 hardening reached only checkout and reset. Untrusted patch headers processed by apply_patches (for example during git am) could also carry +++ or rename targets with .. or absolute paths that were joined onto the repository root and written outside the working tree. The fix derives the configured path validator for all work-tree updates, rejects out-of-tree patch targets, and adds defense-in-depth validation in checkout, restore, and reset_file.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

dulwich is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 1.2.0 - 1.2.5.

How to fix this

Upgrade the dulwich library to the patch version.

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