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CVE-2023-40274

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.92% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2023-08-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

AI analysis pending.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2023-40274
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.92%

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in zola 0.13.0 through 0.17.2. The custom implementation of a web server, available via the "zola serve" command, allows directory traversal. The handle_request function, used by the server to process HTTP requests, does not account for sequences of special path control characters (../) in the URL when serving a file, which allows one to escape the webroot of the server and read arbitrary files from the filesystem.