Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated attacker can plant user-config/app.env as a symlink to an arbitrary reachable path and then send PUT /api/user-config/demoapp3:_user with attacker-controlled appEnv content. FilesystemService.writeTextFile() follows the planted link, allowing content to be written outside the intended restore and user-config directory boundary with Runtipi process permissions. This issue is fixed in version 4.10.1.
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| Description | Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated attacker can plant user-config/app.env as a symlink to an arbitrary reachable path and then send PUT /api/user-config/demoapp3:_user with attacker-controlled appEnv content. FilesystemService.writeTextFile() follows the planted link, allowing content to be written outside the intended restore and user-config directory boundary with Runtipi process permissions. This issue is fixed in version 4.10.1. | |
| Title | Runtipi: Authenticated arbitrary file write via backup restore symlink planting | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-59 CWE-61 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-21T20:31:38.124Z
Reserved: 2026-06-16T15:13:28.166Z
Link: CVE-2026-55168
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-21T21:17:00.410
Modified: 2026-08-21T21:17:00.410
Link: CVE-2026-55168
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-21T21:30:17Z