Medium severity · published Aug 21, 2026
CVE-2026-71493
Infracost: Arbitrary file read via config-template readFile symlink traversal
5.9
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
IN
infracost · infracost
< 0.10.45 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71493
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71493
github.com
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/commit/4d39331afc0e27752d16d9d91c34583e5e8487fb
github.com
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/pull/3586
github.com
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/releases/tag/v0.10.45
github.com
https://github.com/infracost/infracost/security/advisories/GHSA-mmg6-4qmv-6pc8
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