Path Traversal in Theunwindai Awesome Llm Apps
CVE-2026-29871
A path traversal vulnerability exists in the awesome-llm-apps project in commit e46690f99c3f08be80a9877fab52acacf7ab8251 (2026-01-19) in the Beifong AI News and Podcast Agent backend in FastAPI backend, stream-audio endpoint, in file routers/podcast_router.py, in function stream_audio. The stream-audio endpoint accepts a user-controlled path parameter that is concatenated into a filesystem path without proper validation or restriction. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem, potentially disclosing sensitive information such as configuration files and credentials.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
EPSS: 0.006 (43.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.
Affected products
- Theunwindai Awesome_llm_apps
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Mitigation)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-29871?
- CVE-2026-29871 is a high-severity vulnerability in Theunwindai Awesome Llm Apps, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-03-27.
- How severe is CVE-2026-29871?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.