CVE-2026-66835

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66835
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-66835.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-66835
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-09-01T14:49:47Z
Modified
2026-09-09T03:30:57Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
httpd mod_auth directory protection bypassed by a doubled slash in the request path
Details

Path Equivalence vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a mod_auth protected directory by prefixing the request path with an extra slash.

httpd_request:validate_uri/1 normalises the request URI with uri_string:normalize/1, which performs RFC 3986 dot-segment removal but does not collapse empty path segments, so a doubled slash survives. mod_alias:real_name/3 concatenates the document root with that URI, and mod_auth:secret_path/3 then decides whether the result lies inside a protected directory block by running the configured directory path as an unanchored regular expression against it. The doubled slash breaks the contiguous substring the regex needs, so the request is treated as unprotected and no authentication challenge is issued, while mod_get opens the same path and the operating system collapses the doubled slash and returns the protected file. The same path mismatch also evades the per-path accounting in mod_security.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.

Database specific
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    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-50"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/66xxx/CVE-2026-66835.json",
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
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                {
                    "introduced":  "5.10"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "9.3.2.7"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.4"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "9.6.2.3"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.7"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "9.7.2"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "*"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/erlang/otp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/erlang/otp
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "17.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "27.3.4.17"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "28.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "28.5.0.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "29.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "29.0.6"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

OTP-17.*
OTP-17.0
OTP-18.*
OTP-18.0
OTP-18.0-rc1
OTP-19.*
OTP-19.0
OTP-19.0-rc1
OTP-19.0-rc2
OTP-20.*
OTP-20.0
OTP-20.0-rc1
OTP-20.0-rc2
OTP-21.*
OTP-21.0
OTP-21.0-rc1
OTP-21.0-rc2
OTP-22.*
OTP-22.0
OTP-22.0-rc1
OTP-22.0-rc2
OTP-22.0-rc3
OTP-23.*
OTP-23.0
OTP-23.0-rc1
OTP-23.0-rc2
OTP-23.0-rc3
OTP-24.*
OTP-24.0
OTP-24.0-rc1
OTP-24.0-rc2
OTP-24.0-rc3
OTP-25.*
OTP-25.0
OTP-25.0-rc1
OTP-25.0-rc2
OTP-25.0-rc3
OTP-26.*
OTP-26.0
OTP-26.0-rc1
OTP-26.0-rc2
OTP-26.0-rc3
OTP-27.*
OTP-27.0
OTP-27.0-rc1
OTP-27.0-rc2
OTP-27.0-rc3
OTP-27.1
OTP-27.2
OTP-27.3
OTP-27.3.1
OTP-27.3.2
OTP-27.3.3
OTP-27.3.4
OTP-27.3.4.1
OTP-27.3.4.10
OTP-27.3.4.11
OTP-27.3.4.12
OTP-27.3.4.13
OTP-27.3.4.14
OTP-27.3.4.15
OTP-27.3.4.16
OTP-27.3.4.2
OTP-27.3.4.3
OTP-27.3.4.4
OTP-27.3.4.5
OTP-27.3.4.6
OTP-27.3.4.7
OTP-27.3.4.8
OTP-27.3.4.9
OTP-28.*
OTP-28.0
OTP-28.1
OTP-28.4
OTP-28.5
OTP-28.5.0.1
OTP-28.5.0.2
OTP-28.5.0.3
OTP-28.5.0.4
OTP-28.5.0.5
OTP-29.*
OTP-29.0
OTP-29.0.1
OTP-29.0.2
OTP-29.0.3
OTP-29.0.4
OTP-29.0.5
Other
patch-base-27
patch-base-28

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-66835.json"