Critical severity · published Oct 23, 2026
CVE-2026-46652
Path traversal via HTTP `Content-Disposition` header in ExternalFilesDownloader enables remote code execution in Goobi viewer
New
9.8
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
The Goobi viewer is a web application that allows digitised material to be displayed in a web browser. From version 24.03 to before version 26.05, ExternalFilesDownloader.getFilename() extracts the destination filename from a server-supplied Content-Disposition response header and passes it directly to Path.resolve() without stripping directory components. This allows for a malicious HTTP server that the viewer fetches from to supply an absolute path or ../ traversal sequences as the filename, writing attacker-controlled content to an arbitrary path writable by the Tomcat process. When targeting the deployed web-application directory, this yields remote code execution as the tomcat OS user. This issue has been patched in version 26.05.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
goobi-viewer-core · intranda
>= 24.03, < 26.05 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46652
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46652
github.com
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/commit/5281245708447ae3419cb42492fbb8af731a2ce5
github.com
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/releases/tag/v26.05
github.com
https://github.com/intranda/goobi-viewer-core/security/advisories/GHSA-r386-2frm-w3v6
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