CVE-2026-103060: high-severity vulnerability in erlang rebar3
Path traversal in rebar3 via unvalidated dependency app names
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.5%
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in erlang rebar3 allows a malicious package publisher to delete a directory outside the project's _build directory and extract package files into it when a developer fetches dependencies.
A package release's dependencies in a Hex registry carry an app field that names the dependency's OTP application. rebar3 uses this field as the dependency's name without validating it (rebar_packages:parse_deps/1) and builds the dependency's directory from that name (rebar_app_utils:dep_to_app/7). rebar_fetch:download_source_online/2 deletes that directory with rm -rf and moves the fetched package into it. hex.pm didn't restrict the field to a directory name before 2026-10-12, so a publisher could set it to a value such as ../../../../target. When a project depends on such a release directly or transitively, rebar3 get-deps deletes the directory the name resolves to and writes the dependency's files there. This happens before the dependency's own rebar.config.script is evaluated, and get-deps compiles nothing.
This issue affects rebar3: from 3.7.0-rc1 before 3.27.2.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
erlang · rebar3Related CVEs — erlang rebar3
In the same product, most dangerous first.
References
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-103060.htmlhttps://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/56b7d88975aa8da6446857cfd92de0825024bf63https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/e35282b26e499b1d9e8f30bba9dccd71cd8b02bahttps://github.com/erlang/rebar3/security/advisories/GHSA-6ggr-r7mh-2mv8https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-103060