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CVE-2026-72571: mustafaakin cast-localvideo - Unauthenticated Path Traversal via dir Parameter

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-10 · updated 2026-10-24
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

A path traversal vulnerability in mustafaakin/cast-localvideo (all versions) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server. The app.js handler at lines 151-153 passes the user-supplied req.body.dir parameter directly to res.sendFile() without sanitization, enabling directory traversal via absolute paths or ../ sequences to read sensitive system files.

Affected products

• mustafaakin cast-localvideo: 0

References

• https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo
• https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo/blob/main/app.js

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