GHSA-hv99-mxm5-q397

Weblate: Arbitrary File Read via Symlink

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-34242

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	weblate	< 5.17	5.17

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact The ZIP download feature didn't verify downloaded file and it could follow symlinks outside the repository. ### Patches * https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/pull/18683 ### References Thanks to @DavidCarliez for reporting this vulnerability via GitHub.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/security/advisories/GHSA-hv99-mxm5-q397 web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34242 advisory
https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate/commit/5db3a2a2e047ecaab627a8731cd744a30b2f51d3 web
https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate package