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CVE-2026-40611

HIGH CVSS: 8.8 Published: 2026-04-21 Modified: 2026-07-15

Description

Let's Encrypt client and ACME library written in Go (Lego). Prior to 4.34.0, the webroot HTTP-01 challenge provider in lego is vulnerable to arbitrary file write and deletion via path traversal. A malicious ACME server can supply a crafted challenge token containing ../ sequences, causing lego to write attacker-influenced content to any path writable by the lego process. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.34.0.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-22, CWE-22

References