Path Traversal in Sleuthkit

CVE-2026-40024

The Sleuth Kit through 4.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in tsk_recover that allows an attacker to write files to arbitrary locations outside the intended recovery directory via crafted filenames or directory paths with path traversal sequences in a filesystem image. An attacker can craft a malicious filesystem image with embedded /../ sequences in filenames that, when processed by tsk_recover, writes files outside the output directory, potentially achieving code execution by overwriting shell configuration or cron entries.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.002 (6.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.