HIGH 7.5 NVD
CVE-2026-72571
A path traversal vulnerability in mustafaakin/cast-localvideo (all versions) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server.
A path traversal vulnerability in mustafaakin/cast-localvideo (all versions) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server. The app.js handler at lines 151-153 passes the user-supplied req.body.dir parameter directly to res.sendFile() without sanitization, enabling directory traversal via absolute paths or ../ sequences to read sensitive system files.
References
- https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo
- https://github.com/mustafaakin/cast-localvideo/blob/main/app.js
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-08-10 via NVD.
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