CVE-2026-53980
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
Charmbracelet wish before 2.0.5 contains a path traversal vulnerability in the git middleware (charm.land/wish/v2) that allows authenticated SSH users to escape the configured repository directory by supplying crafted repo paths that bypass a flawed forward-slash-count containment check in git.Middleware(). Attackers can use a single-depth path ../evil, or on Windows a payload ..\..\evil that defeats the slash-count guard entirely, to read or write arbitrary repositories outside the intended root via git-upload-pack, git-upload-archive, or git-receive-pack.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
8.6
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Received
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-06 15:17:22.100000
Last modified
2026-11-06 18:18:14.510000
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