CVE-2026-71492

Banks generates meaningful LLM prompts using a simple template language. Prior to version 2.4.5, DirectoryPromptRegistry.set() in src/banks/registries/directory.py interpolates attacker-controlled Prompt.name and Prompt.version values into a Path without canonicalization or containment validation. Relative traversal such as ../victim/foo and an absolute Prompt.name can escape or discard the configured registry root, while overwrite=True permits replacement of existing target files. The poisoned name is persisted in index.json and reconstructed by _load(), allowing the out-of-root path to survive later registry loads. An application that forwards request data into these fields can therefore write Prompt.raw bytes to attacker-chosen paths writable by the application process. This issue is fixed in version 2.4.5.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/masci/banks/commit/a215f6d779966945c56e0af5abed1ae5916fd9d3
https://github.com/masci/banks/pull/77
https://github.com/masci/banks/releases/tag/v2.4.5
https://github.com/masci/banks/security/advisories/GHSA-x8wg-4xgc-vr54
https://github.com/masci/banks/security/advisories/GHSA-x8wg-4xgc-vr54

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-20 17:19

Updated : 2026-08-20 17:19

NVD link : CVE-2026-71492

Mitre link : CVE-2026-71492

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-71492

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

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