CVE-2026-52832
Nuclio: Unauthenticated path traversal in spec.handler allows arbitrary file write in Dashboard container
- Published
- Sep 2, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 2, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Sep 2, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 41.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
Nuclio is a "Serverless" framework for Real-Time Events and Data Processing. Prior to version 1.16.5, Nuclio Dashboard exposes POST /api/functions without authentication by default (NOP auth mode). The spec.handler field (e.g., mymodule:myfunction) is parsed by functionconfig.ParseHandler() which splits on : only — no path validation is applied to the module portion. This issue has been patched in version 1.16.5.
Sources
1Nuclio Dashboard (NOP mode) accepts unauthenticated POST /api/functions. The spec.handler field isn't path-validated, so ../../../../tmp/x.txt:handler escapes the build tempdir via path.Join, letting an attacker write arbitrary content to any path as root. (CVE-2026-52832, ≤1.15.27)
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