CVE-2026-72814

actix-files before 0.6.10 Information Disclosure via Files

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: August 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM UTC
Updated: October 29, 2026 at 09:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorActix Web

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
PoC

Description

The actix-files crate (actix_files) before version 0.6.10 contains an information exposure vulnerability. When a non-existing folder is passed as the serve_from argument to Files::new(), the mount path defaults to an empty path; the service then joins the request path with this empty path and canonicalizes it, causing Rust to resolve it as a relative path. As a result, an attacker can request paths that resolve relative to the application's working directory and access unintended files.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

0 ≤ v < 0.6.100
Vendor states this is fixed in 0.6.10 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

6.3MEDIUMVulnCheck
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CWE
CWE-22

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