What is CVE-2026-44885?

CVE-2026-44885 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Portainer, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-05-28.

How severe is CVE-2026-44885?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Portainer

CVE-2026-44885

Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33.8, Portainer's backup restore featu…

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.004 (59.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L.

Affected products

Portainer — versions >= 2.33.0, < 2.33.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-44885?: CVE-2026-44885 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Portainer, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2026-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2026-44885?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.