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CVE-2026-68548

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.07 BB Relevance: 79/100
Published: 2026-11-12 Modified: 2026-11-13 First seen: 2026-11-12 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: High
A: Low

Description

Algernon is a small self-contained pure-Go web server. Prior to version 1.17.10, Algernon's URL-prefix authorization gate matches its protected prefixes (/admin, /repo, /data) with case-sensitive strings.HasPrefix, while the exact same raw req.URL.Path is later resolved against the filesystem. On case-insensitive filesystems (Windows NTFS — always; macOS APFS/HFS+ — default), a request for /Admin/secret.lua evades every protected-prefix check, falls through to the public-prefix accept branch, and then resolves on disk to admin/secret.lua. The result is an unauthenticated bypass of the /admin, /repo, and /data authorization boundary, enabling read (and, for Lua files, execution) of protected content. The permission system is active in the default configuration. This issue has been patched in version 1.17.10.

Weakness Classification (2)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
xyproto algernon < 1.17.10
xyproto algernon < 1.17.10

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

79 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.4 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.75%
Raw Score 0.007540
Percentile 55.7%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00754
2026-11-13
0.00754

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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