CVE-2026-31978

motionEye (mEye) is an online interface for motion software, which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 are vulnerable to path traversal in the picture and movie API endpoints, suhc as /picture/{id}/preview/{filename}. Neither the API handlers, nor the mediafiles.py functions such as get_media_preview() check for .. sequences in the filename parameter, except for get_media_content(). This allows an authenticated user with normal (non-admin) privileges to read arbitrary files from the filesystem as the motionEye process user, such as: /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, motionEye config files containing password hashes and plaintext passwords, SSH keys, and other cameras' surveillance footage. This issue has been fixed in version 0.44.0.

CVSS 3.1

6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 35% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWEs

CWE-22, CWE-284

Published

2026-06-24

Modified

2026-10-25

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-25

Packages (OSV)

References

• https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/releases/tag/0.44.0
• https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/security/advisories/GHSA-g9fx-5r4h-pcw3
• https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/security/advisories/GHSA-g9fx-5r4h-pcw3

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