Ferret is a declarative system for working with web data. Prior to 2.0.0-alpha.4, a path traversal vulnerability in Ferret's IO::FS::WRITE standard library function allows a malicious website to write arbitrary files to the filesystem of the machine running Ferret. When an operator scrapes a website that returns filenames containing ../ sequences, and uses those filenames to construct output paths (a standard scraping pattern), the attacker controls both the destination path and the file content. This can lead to remote code execution via cron jobs, SSH authorized_keys, shell profiles, or web shells. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.0-alpha.4.
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| Description | Ferret is a declarative system for working with web data. Prior to 2.0.0-alpha.4, a path traversal vulnerability in Ferret's IO::FS::WRITE standard library function allows a malicious website to write arbitrary files to the filesystem of the machine running Ferret. When an operator scrapes a website that returns filenames containing ../ sequences, and uses those filenames to construct output paths (a standard scraping pattern), the attacker controls both the destination path and the file content. This can lead to remote code execution via cron jobs, SSH authorized_keys, shell profiles, or web shells. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.0-alpha.4. | |
| Title | Ferret has a Path Traversal in IO::FS::WRITE allows arbitrary file write when scraping malicious websites | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-73 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-06T16:04:24.959Z
Reserved: 2026-03-30T19:54:55.556Z
Link: CVE-2026-34783
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-06T17:17:10.430
Modified: 2026-04-06T17:17:10.430
Link: CVE-2026-34783
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