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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44301 (CVE-2026-44301)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-05-12 22:16 – Updated: 2026-05-25 09:18 – Source website

Details

Hugo is a static site generator. From 0.43 to before 0.161.0, when building a Hugo site that uses Node-based asset pipelines (PostCSS, Babel, TailwindCSS), Hugo invoked the configured Node tools without restrictions on file system access. As a result, executing hugo against an untrusted site could allow code running through these tools to read or write files outside the project's working directory. Users who do not use PostCSS, Babel, or TailwindCSS, or who only build trusted sites, are not affected. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.161.0.

Severity

6.2 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

8.1 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-44301	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44301	REPORT
	https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisor…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-44301 (GCVE-0-2026-44301)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-12 21:37 – Updated: 2026-05-13 12:13

Title

Hugo: Node tool execution allows file system access outside the project directory

Summary

Severity

6.2 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-13 12:12 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
gohugoio	hugo	Affected: >= 0.43.0, < 0.161.0

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