changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.55.1, the vulnerability is caused by trusting attacker-controlled snapshot paths restored from backup files. The vulnerable flow starts in the backup restore logic. When a backup ZIP is restored, the application extracts the archive and copies each restored watch UUID directory directly into the live datastore using shutil.copytree(entry.path, dst_dir). This preserves attacker-controlled files inside the restored watch directory, including history.txt. After restore, the application parses history.txt in the watch history property and returns the contents of the targeted local file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.1.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8757-69j2-hx56 changedetection.io has an Arbitrary Local File Read via a crafted backup restore
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Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Dgtlmoon
Dgtlmoon changedetection.io
Vendors & Products Dgtlmoon
Dgtlmoon changedetection.io

Tue, 12 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Description changedetection.io is a free open source web page change detection tool. Prior to 0.55.1, the vulnerability is caused by trusting attacker-controlled snapshot paths restored from backup files. The vulnerable flow starts in the backup restore logic. When a backup ZIP is restored, the application extracts the archive and copies each restored watch UUID directory directly into the live datastore using shutil.copytree(entry.path, dst_dir). This preserves attacker-controlled files inside the restored watch directory, including history.txt. After restore, the application parses history.txt in the watch history property and returns the contents of the targeted local file. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.55.1.
Title changedetection.io: Arbitrary Local File Read via crafted backup restore
Weaknesses CWE-73
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-12T16:56:33.823Z

Reserved: 2026-05-04T15:17:09.330Z

Link: CVE-2026-43891

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-12T18:17:28.493

Modified: 2026-05-12T18:17:28.493

Link: CVE-2026-43891

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-12T22:00:18Z

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