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CVE-2026-86251

8.2 highEPSS 0.4%

High (8.2). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in h3 1.15.9.

h3 versions before 1.15.9 contain a path traversal vulnerability in the serveStatic utility. A double-decoding flaw allows a request path containing double-encoded dot sequences (e.g. %252e%252e) to be decoded to %2e%2e, which survives resolveDotSegments() because that function only checks for literal '.' characters. When the resulting asset ID is resolved by URL-based backends (CDN, S3, object storage), %2e%2e is interpreted as '..' per RFC 3986, enabling path traversal to read arbitrary files from the backend.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

8.2 high
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

5.9 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-72gr-qfp7-vwhwnpmh3<1.15.91.15.9

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