{"id":80921,"date":"2026-06-22T21:52:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53779-webp-server-go-0-15-0-path-traversal-via-backslash-encoding-on-windows\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:22:40","slug":"cve-2026-53779-webp-server-go-0-15-0-path-traversal-via-backslash-encoding-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-53779-webp-server-go-0-15-0-path-traversal-via-backslash-encoding-on-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-53779 &#8211; WebP Server Go &lt; 0.15.0 Path Traversal via Backslash Encoding on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-53779<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 21\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :WebP Server Go through 0.14.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability on Windows that allows unauthenticated attackers to read files outside the configured IMG_PATH directory by sending requests with percent-encoded backslashes (%5C) that bypass the path.Clean() sanitization in handler\/router.go. Attackers can exploit the discrepancy between Go&#8217;s forward-slash-only path normalization and Windows file system APIs that treat backslashes and forward slashes as equivalent to access arbitrary files on the host filesystem accessible to the server process.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.7 | HIGH<\/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-2026-53779 Published : June 22, 2026, 6:22 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 21\u00a0minutes ago Description :WebP Server Go through 0.14.4 contains a path traversal vulnerability on Windows that allows unauthenticated attackers to read files outside the configured IMG_PATH directory by sending requests with percent-encoded backslashes (%5C) that bypass the path.Clean() sanitization in handler\/router.go. Attackers can &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-80921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80921","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=80921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}