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AIKIDO-2026-352311

livebook is vulnerable to Path Traversal

Path TraversalCVE-2026-66881 Published Today

70

High Risk

This Affects:

ELIXIRlivebook
0.11.0 - 0.18.6
Fixed in 0.18.7
0.19.0 - 0.19.8
Fixed in 0.19.9
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TL;DR

When importing a .livemd notebook, Livebook takes each file_entries name instead of applying the filename validation used by every user-interface path. For a URL-type entry, the name is resolved into the session's cache directory. A user who opens the notebook and causes the entry to be fetched writes the downloaded response body to a path outside the session sandbox. The fix validates file entry names on import to prevent traversal.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and you open an untrusted notebook and evaluate or download a URL-type file entry it declares.

Background info

livebook is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 0.11.0 - 0.18.6 and 0.19.0 - 0.19.8.

How to fix this

Upgrade the livebook library to the patch version.