CVE-2026-53779
Severity CVSS v4.0:
HIGH
Type:
CWE-22
Path Traversal
Publication date:
22/06/2026
Last modified:
14/07/2026
Description
WebP Server Go through 0.14.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability on Windows that allows unauthenticated attackers to read files outside the configured IMG_PATH directory by sending requests with percent-encoded backslashes (%5C) that bypass the path.Clean() sanitization in handler/router.go. Attackers can exploit the discrepancy between Go's forward-slash-only path normalization and Windows file system APIs that treat backslashes and forward slashes as equivalent to access arbitrary files on the host filesystem accessible to the server process.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
8.70
Severity 4.0
HIGH
Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH



