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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2026-71493 json

Infracost: Arbitrary file read via config-template readFile symlink traversal

published 2026-08-21 2 mo ago modified 2026-10-14 25 d ago also GHSA-mmg6-4qmv-6pc8 , GO-2026-6439 , EUVD-2026-64035

cvss
5.9
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Infracost provides cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD. Prior to 0.10.45, the readFile, pathExists, isDir, and matchPaths template functions in internal/config/template/parser.go use a lexical filepath.Rel check and a leaf-only os.Lstat check that do not resolve an intermediate directory symlink. A repository can contain a path such as evil/file where evil points outside the checkout, causing os.ReadFile and related operations to follow the symlink and read runner-accessible files. The resulting content is rendered into generated configuration and can be surfaced through the Infracost dashboard or pull request comment, with greater impact in workflows that provide repository secrets. This issue is fixed in version 0.10.45.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/infracost/infracost 0.10.45
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES 16.0, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 5.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/infracost/infracost
<0.10.45
0.10.45

Affected products

  • infracost infracost

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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