CVE-2026-40024

The Sleuth Kit through 4.14.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in tskrecover 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 tskrecover, writes files outside the output directory, potentially achieving code execution by overwriting shell configuration or cron entries.