An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in open-iscsi allows remote MITM attackersĀ to create root-owned files outside the database and inject lines into the record.
This issue affects open-iscsi: from through 668ca1df9c9a1e9bdd5c999ae1d67c9c8909237e.
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}"2026-08-01T08:23:04Z"
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