Path Traversal in Masci Banks
CVE-2026-62663
Banks generates meaningful LLM prompts using a simple template language. In versions prior to 2.4.4, all four media filters (image, audio, video, document) in banks accept untrusted user input as file paths via Path(value) and pass them directly to open(file_path, "rb") without any path sanitization, canonicalization, or directory restriction. An attacker who controls template variables passed to a banks Prompt can use path traversal (../) to read arbitrary files accessible to the Python process—including .env files, SSH keys, cloud credentials, source code, /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow—with the content returned base64-encoded in the rendered prompt output, making exfiltration trivial. This is particularly dangerous for applications that use banks to process user-provided template variables before sending prompts to an LLM. This issue has been fixed in version 2.4.4.
Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)
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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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (34.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 34.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.004 · change: -0.001
Affected products
- Masci Banks — versions < 2.4.4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-62663?
- CVE-2026-62663 is a high-severity vulnerability in Masci Banks, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2026-07-30.
- How severe is CVE-2026-62663?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.