{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00017715","kind":"vulnerability","title":"DSpace: Path Traversal is possible through LDN message generation","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x","CVE-2026-49833"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this reviewed advisory for org.dspace:dspace-api, org.dspace:dspace-api, org.dspace:dspace-api. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-4e4f793cb778fae9a1c7ef5d4080aea3"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[{"kind":"CVSS","as_of":"2026-07-08T20:26:16.000Z","value":"5.5 medium","meaning":"GitHub source severity; exploitability and local consequence require separate evidence.","source_id":"sr-4e4f793cb778fae9a1c7ef5d4080aea3"}],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-4e4f793cb778fae9a1c7ef5d4080aea3","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-9qm4-rh6w-pq5x","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-04T23:34:51.634Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-4e4f793cb778fae9a1c7ef5d4080aea3"],"technology":"org.dspace:dspace-api","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Overview\n\nA path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. _This vulnerability impacts DSpace versions 8.0 <= 8.3, 9.0 <= 9.2._  The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack.\n\nWhen reading a file input stream of an  \"inbound pattern\" / \"template\", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. This could allow an untrusted file from elsewhere in the file system (e.g. an export log, a bitstream path, a temporary file) to be read and interpreted as an Apache Velocity template.\n\nExpected behaviour : Only the trusted templates kept in `$dspace.dir/config/ldn` should be allowed or used by LDN.\n\n## Impact\n\nOn its own this seems a fairly low-impact problem: only DSpace Administrators can set LDN template names in services, and you typically need more access to manipulate files on the server.\n\nHowever, this vulnerability was included as part of an attack chain that demonstrated the ability of a DSpace Administrator to put the malicious Velocity payl","public_affected_ranges":[">= 8.0-rc1, <= 8.3"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-4e4f793cb778fae9a1c7ef5d4080aea3"],"technology":"org.dspace:dspace-api","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Overview\n\nA path traversal vulnerability is possible via the COAR Notify / LDN service in DSpace. _This vulnerability impacts DSpace versions 8.0 <= 8.3, 9.0 <= 9.2._  The attacker MUST already have DSpace administrator credentials in order to perform the attack.\n\nWhen reading a file input stream of an  \"inbound pattern\" / \"template\", used to generate an LDN message, the LDN class does not check for path traversal or restrict the templates to a known base path. 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