CVE-2026-40611

INFO Priority: 0.00 BB Relevance: 0/100
Published: 2026-04-21 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: pending_score

Description

Let's Encrypt client and ACME library written in Go (Lego). Prior to 4.34.0, the webroot HTTP-01 challenge provider in lego is vulnerable to arbitrary file write and deletion via path traversal. A malicious ACME server can supply a crafted challenge token containing ../ sequences, causing lego to write attacker-influenced content to any path writable by the lego process. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.34.0.

Weakness Classification (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

0 / 100

CVSS Score

Unscored

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.42%
Raw Score 0.004180
Percentile 36.1%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00418
2026-10-28
0.00418

Intelligence Sources

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