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CVE-2026-42888: Audiobookshelf: Path Traversal vulnerability in the audiobookshelf project
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v4.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-11 · updated 2026-10-26
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server. Prior to 2.32.2, the podcast creation endpoint at server/controllers/PodcastController.js accepts a user-controlled file path without sufficient boundary validation to ensure it remains within the intended library directory. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.32.2.
Affected products
- advplyr audiobookshelf: before 2.33.2
References
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