Description
Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated attacker can plant user-config/app.env as a symlink to an arbitrary reachable path and then send PUT /api/user-config/demoapp3:_user with attacker-controlled appEnv content. FilesystemService.writeTextFile() follows the planted link, allowing content to be written outside the intended restore and user-config directory boundary with Runtipi process permissions. This issue is fixed in version 4.10.1.
Published: 2026-08-21
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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First Time appeared Runtipi
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Vendors & Products Runtipi
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Description Runtipi is a personal homeserver orchestrator. In 4.10.0 and earlier, Runtipi accepts symbolic links from an attacker-controlled backup archive and copies them into live application paths during the backup restore flow. An authenticated attacker can plant user-config/app.env as a symlink to an arbitrary reachable path and then send PUT /api/user-config/demoapp3:_user with attacker-controlled appEnv content. FilesystemService.writeTextFile() follows the planted link, allowing content to be written outside the intended restore and user-config directory boundary with Runtipi process permissions. This issue is fixed in version 4.10.1.
Title Runtipi: Authenticated arbitrary file write via backup restore symlink planting
Weaknesses CWE-59
CWE-61
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-21T20:31:38.124Z

Reserved: 2026-06-16T15:13:28.166Z

Link: CVE-2026-55168

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-21T21:17:00.410

Modified: 2026-08-21T21:17:00.410

Link: CVE-2026-55168

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-21T21:30:17Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-59

    Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

  • CWE-61

    UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following