Vulnerability GHSA-5hxg-r395-fqxx

Critical
CRITICAL RISK
CVSS Score: 9.3
Score Range: 9.0–10.0
Critical severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0–10.0). These represent the highest impact issues.
2 months ago
July 21, 2026 at 06:31 PM UTC
Home Assistant Core vulnerable to Path Traversal via backup upload during onboarding
0.7.0rc1 - 2026.6.0b4
0.7.0rc1 - 2026.6.0b4

Summary

Home Assistant Core vulnerable to Path Traversal via backup upload during onboarding

Details

Home Assistant Core before 2026.6.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files to any directory on the host filesystem by uploading a crafted backup archive during the initial onboarding window. Attackers can manipulate the 'name' field inside the uploaded archive's backup.json to supply an absolute path, causing pathlib.Path.truediv to discard the configured backup directory prefix and write attacker-controlled content to arbitrary locations, with full filesystem access when the process runs as root.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
2 months ago
July 21, 2026 at 06:31 PM UTC
Fixed (2026.6.0)
4 months ago
June 03, 2026 at 06:16 PM UTC
Last Modified
1 month ago
August 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM UTC