Medium severity · published Aug 18, 2026
CVE-2026-48796
CefSharp: `FolderSchemeHandlerFactory` path boundary check can expose files outside the configured root folder
5.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
CefSharp provides .NET bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications. Prior to version 148.0.90, CefSharp/SchemeHandler/FolderSchemeHandlerFactory.cs used filePath.StartsWith(rootFolder, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) to decide whether a decoded and canonicalized request path remained inside rootFolder. That raw prefix test did not enforce a directory boundary, so a request such as ..%2fwww2/secret.txt could escape a configured www directory into a sibling www2 directory whose path shared the same string prefix. Applications that register FolderSchemeHandlerFactory for a custom scheme or an HTTP or HTTPS scheme can therefore serve local files outside the intended root when an attacker can cause the embedded browser to request the crafted URL. The issue affects both Unix-style paths such as /tmp/app/www2 and Windows paths such as C:\app\www2, and the fix appends a directory separator to the normalized root before comparison while rejecting null bytes and alternate data stream syntax. This issue is fixed in version 148.0.90.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CE
CefSharp · cefsharp
< 148.0.90 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48796
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48796
github.com
https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/commit/3475c7ef14119f67ec3720866bb3e4b1c6c68632
github.com
https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases/tag/v148.0.90
github.com
https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/security/advisories/GHSA-85jm-cwp2-mvpv
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