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Description
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in gleam-wisp wisp allows arbitrary file read via percent-encoded path traversal.
The wisp.serve_static function is vulnerable to path traversal because sanitization runs before percent-decoding. The encoded sequence %2e%2e passes through string.replace unchanged, then uri.percent_decode converts it to .., which the OS resolves as directory traversal when the file is read.
An unauthenticated attacker can read any file readable by the application process in a single HTTP request, including application source code, configuration files, secrets, and system files.
This issue affects wisp: from 2.1.1 before 2.2.1.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-22
·
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-139
·
Relative Path Traversal
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / wisp Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
≥
2.1.1
<
2.2.1
affected
every other version:
unaffected
default status
unaffected
cpe
cpe:2.3:a:gleam-wisp:wisp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected — GitHub / gleam-wisp/wisp Repository ↗
≥
129dcb1
<
161118c
affected
every other version:
unaffected
default status
unaffected
cpe
cpe:2.3:a:gleam-wisp:wisp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References
github.com/gleam-wisp/wisp ·
GHSA-h7cj-j2vv-qw8r ↗
vendor-advisory
osv.dev ·
EEF-CVE-2026-28807 ↗
related
Credits
John Downey
Finder
Louis Pilfold
Remediation developer
CVSS breakdown
HIGH 8.7
open in calculator →
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N