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CVE-2026-44943: remote limited file-write as root via discovery in open-iscsi

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-07-29 · updated 2026-07-30
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in open-iscsi allows remote MITM attackers  to create root-owned files outside the database and inject lines into the record. This issue affects open-iscsi: from through 668ca1df9c9a1e9bdd5c999ae1d67c9c8909237e.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44943
• https://github.com/open-iscsi/open-iscsi/commit/668ca1df9c9a1e9bdd5c999ae1d67c9c8909237e

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