Path Traversal in binary-husky/gpt_academic

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• binary-husky gpt academic3.83

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (@huntr_ai). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• binary-husky binary-husky/gpt_academic

  • unspecified and later · up to and including latestaffected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2026-0764GPT Academic upload Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  39Monitor
• CVE-2026-0763GPT Academic run_in_subprocess_wrapper_func Deserialization of Untrusted Data Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  39Monitor
• CVE-2024-31224GPT Academic: Pickle deserializing cookies may pose RCE risk
  39Monitor
• CVE-2024-11039Deserialization of Untrusted Data in binary-husky/gpt_academic
  36Monitor
• CVE-2024-12390Remote Code Execution in binary-husky/gpt_academic
  35Monitor
• CVE-2024-12389Path Traversal in binary-husky/gpt_academic
  35Monitor

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

A user-supplied file name is joined with the allowed directory, but the result is never checked to confirm it is still inside that directory.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1const file = path.join(ROOT, req.query.name);2res.sendFile(file);

1const file = path.resolve(ROOT, req.query.name);2if (!file.startsWith(ROOT + path.sep)) {3  return res.sendStatus(400);4}5res.sendFile(file);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.