CVE-2026-45807

HIGH

Kestra File Endpoints - Authenticated Path Traversal File Read

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

Kestra is an open-source, event-driven orchestration platform. Prior to 1.0.43 and 1.3.19, several Kestra API endpoints accept a kestra:// URI from the client and pass it through StorageInterface.parentTraversalGuard before reading the underlying file from the local storage backend. The guard only inspects the literal URI.toString(), so a URL-encoded .. written as %2E%2E slips through. The downstream code then calls URI.getPath(), which decodes %2E%2E back to .., and the resulting path is handed to Paths.get(...) without normalization. The OS resolves the .. segments at open(2) time, so an authenticated user with a single execution can read any file the Kestra process has access to on the host filesystem (/etc/passwd, mounted secrets, other tenants' execution outputs, etc.). This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.43 and 1.3.19.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0039
EPSS Percentile 30.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (3)
kestra/kestra < 1.0.43
kestra-io/kestra < 1.0.43
kestra-io/kestra >= 1.1.0, < 1.3.19
Published Jun 26, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 27, 2026