{"id":78283,"date":"2026-05-11T22:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-42866-tookie-arbitrary-file-write-via-path-traversal-in-u-username-u-userfile-output-filename\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:16:24","slug":"cve-2026-42866-tookie-arbitrary-file-write-via-path-traversal-in-u-username-u-userfile-output-filename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-42866-tookie-arbitrary-file-write-via-path-traversal-in-u-username-u-userfile-output-filename\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-42866 &#8211; Tookie: Arbitrary file write via path traversal in -u username \/ -U userfile output filename"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-42866<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 11, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 43\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Tookie is a advanced OSINT information gathering tool. Prior to 4.1fix, modules\/modules.py&#8217;s write_txt, write_csv, write_json, and (commented-but-shipping) scan_file helpers open their output as open(f&#8221;{user}.&#8221;), where user comes unsanitized from the -u CLI flag or any line of a -U usernames file. A username that contains path-separator sequences (.., \/, , or an absolute path) causes tookie-osint to write the scan output to an arbitrary path the invoking user has write permission for. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1fix.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 6.7 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-42866 Published : May 11, 2026, 7:16 p.m. | 43\u00a0minutes ago Description :Tookie is a advanced OSINT information gathering tool. Prior to 4.1fix, modules\/modules.py&#8217;s write_txt, write_csv, write_json, and (commented-but-shipping) scan_file helpers open their output as open(f&#8221;{user}.&#8221;), where user comes unsanitized from the -u CLI flag or any line of a -U usernames file. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}