GHSA-hv99-mxm5-q397

ghsaUSosv

Weblate: Arbitrary File Read via Symlink

view advisory published 2026-04-16Licence: CC-BY-4.0

### Impact The ZIP download feature didn't verify downloaded file and it could follow symlinks outside the repository. ### Patches * https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/pull/18683 ### References Thanks to @DavidCarliez for reporting this vulnerability via GitHub.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2026-34242US	—	0.46% (40th)	—	2026-04-15
Weblate is a web based localization tool. In versions prior to 5.17, the ZIP download feature didn't verify downloaded files, potentially following symlinks outside the repository…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblatePACKAGE
https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/5db3a2a2e047ecaab627a8731cd744a30b2f51d3WEB
https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/security/advisories/GHSA-hv99-mxm5-q397WEB
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34242ADVISORY

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