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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-109596 json

Hugo from v0.162.0 before v0.167.0 Symlink File Disclosure via Nested Mount Ancestor

published 28d ago modified 24d ago also EUVD-2026-98159

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Hugo from v0.162.0 before v0.167.0 contains an improper link resolution vulnerability that lets malicious themes or modules expose files outside their root via nested-mount ancestor directories. Attackers controlling a theme can place a symlink or NTFS junction at a virtual ancestor directory, causing resources.Match to list and publish local files during builds.

Patch / fix

  • gohugoio hugo 0.167.0
  • hugo Debian 14 0.167.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-109596

  • hugo hummingbird 1 0.167.0-0.2.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:80677

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-109596 updated cvss 5.5

hugo: Hugo: Information disclosure via improper link resolution in nested mounts

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana 12.4.3-2.el10 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel9 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 rhoso-operators/openstack-operator-bundle
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Hardened Images hugo 0.167.0-0.2.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:80677
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.7-0.1.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.3-0.1.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.12-0.4.hum1
    not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
26d ago

Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CNA 4.0 6.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

  • gohugoio hugo

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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