changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.55.1, the vulnerability is caused by trusting attacker-controlled snapshot paths restored from backup files. The vulnerable flow starts in the backup restore logic. When a backup ZIP is restored, the application extracts the archive and copies each restored watch UUID directory directly into the live datastore using shutil.copytree(entry.path, dst_dir). This preserves attacker-controlled files inside the restored watch directory, including history.txt. After restore, the application parses history.txt in the watch history property and returns the contents of the targeted local file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.1.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-8757-69j2-hx56 | changedetection.io has an Arbitrary Local File Read via a crafted backup restore |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
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References
History
Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:00 +0000
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Dgtlmoon
Dgtlmoon changedetection.io |
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Dgtlmoon
Dgtlmoon changedetection.io |
Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000
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| Description | changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.55.1, the vulnerability is caused by trusting attacker-controlled snapshot paths restored from backup files. The vulnerable flow starts in the backup restore logic. When a backup ZIP is restored, the application extracts the archive and copies each restored watch UUID directory directly into the live datastore using shutil.copytree(entry.path, dst_dir). This preserves attacker-controlled files inside the restored watch directory, including history.txt. After restore, the application parses history.txt in the watch history property and returns the contents of the targeted local file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.1. | |
| Title | changedetection.io: Arbitrary Local File Read via crafted backup restore | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-73 | |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-12T16:56:33.823Z
Reserved: 2026-05-04T15:17:09.330Z
Link: CVE-2026-43891
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-12T18:17:28.493
Modified: 2026-05-12T18:17:28.493
Link: CVE-2026-43891
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-12T22:00:18Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA