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High, CVSS 7.5

zola Path Traversal vulnerability

CVE-2023-40274GHSA-xvv9-5j67-3rpq

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

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Affected packages

  • crates.io zola

    Affected
    >= 0.13.0, <= 0.17.2
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
  • CVE-2023-40274: 1.10% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 65.72 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

An issue was discovered in zola 0.13.0 through 0.17.2. The custom implementation of a web server, available via the "zola serve" command, allows directory traversal. The handlerequest function, used by the server to process HTTP requests, does not account for sequences of special path control characters (../) in the URL when serving a file, which allows one to escape the webroot of the server and read arbitrary files from the filesystem.

Dates and revisions
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  1. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from ghsa record GHSA-xvv9-5j67-3rpq

Agent brief

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2023-40274

Advisory: zola Path Traversal vulnerability
IDs: CVE-2023-40274, GHSA-xvv9-5j67-3rpq
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2023-40274 (revision 1, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 15:37 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- crates.io zola: affected >= 0.13.0, <= 0.17.2

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- crates.io zola: check the installed version with your package manager.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on zola.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xvv9-5j67-3rpq (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-xvv9-5j67-3rpq lists affected ranges: crates.io zola >=0.13.0 <=0.17.2)

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