HighCVE-2026-115924

    Danielgatis Rembg: Path Traversal (CVE-2026-115924)

    Published Last modified Sources: CVE.org, OSV, Hersteller

    What is affected, what to do

    Rembg is a tool to remove images background. Prior to 2.0.82, the public /api/remove endpoint passes attacker-controlled extras.sam_model through rembg/commands/s_command.py to rembg/sessions/sam.py, where it is interpolated into SAM filenames and GitHub download URLs passed to pooch.retrieve() without a pinned hash.

    Update Danielgatis Rembg to version 2.0.82.

    Affected
    • Danielgatis Rembg lt *..2.0.82
    Fixed in
    • Danielgatis Rembg 2.0.82

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    Metrics

    8.6

    Priority

    XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.

    Source: Vendor (CNA), CVSS v3

    8.6

    CVSS v3

    Severity High on the scale from 0 to 10.

    Source: CVE.org, OSV, Hersteller

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    No value is available for this vulnerability.

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    Severity
    High
    Priority (0–325)

    The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?

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    73.00 Methodology
    Exploit maturity

    An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.

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    no public PoC known
    XIEM Effective CVSS

    XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.

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    8.6 Methodology
    CVSS v3

    CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.

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    8.6
    KEV status

    The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.

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    CWE

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    CWE-22

    Detection rules

    No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.

    Classification under NIS2 and CRA

    Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.

    NIS2

    NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.

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    High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
    CRA

    The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.

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    From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
    ISO/IEC 27001

    ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.

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    Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.

    Description

    Rembg is a tool to remove images background. Prior to 2.0.82, the public /api/remove endpoint passes attacker-controlled extras.sam_model through rembg/commands/s_command.py to rembg/sessions/sam.py, where it is interpolated into SAM filenames and GitHub download URLs passed to pooch.retrieve() without a pinned hash. An unauthenticated attacker can supply a sam_model value combining path traversal with URL fragment syntax to exploit the HTTP request discarding the fragment while the local POSIX path retains it. The first request primes the attacker-selected path tree, and an identical repeated request downloads malicious ONNX encoder and decoder files beside a readable target file. The graphs can load the target through ONNX external data and encode its bytes into the returned PNG mask, disclosing complete files accessible to the rembg process and allowing arbitrary ONNX computation. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.82.

    Source: NVD (NIST), OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), GitHub Security Advisories, cvelistv5

    Affected products

    The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.

    Affected products
    Affected versionsFixed in
    danielgatisrembg
    • < 2.0.82
    • 2.0.82
    piprembg
    • < 2.0.82
    • 2.0.82
    pypirembg
    • 2.0.74
    • 2.0.29
    • 2.0.71
    • 2.0.33
    • 2.0.35
    • 2.0.66
    • 2.0.39
    • 2.0.45
    • 2.0.32
    • 2.0.75
    • 2.0.60
    • 2.0.53
    • 2.0.52
    • 2.0.51
    • 2.0.72
    • 2.0.46
    • 2.0.64
    • 2.0.28
    • 2.0.44
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    • 2.0.63
    • 2.0.61
    • 2.0.55
    • 2.0.40
    • 2.0.69
    • 2.0.36
    • 2.0.37
    • 2.0.62
    • 2.0.59
    • 2.0.43
    • 2.0.38
    • 2.0.30
    • 2.0.34
    • 2.0.31
    • 2.0.70
    • 2.0.81
    • 2.0.54
    • 2.0.76
    • 2.0.80
    • 2.0.50
    • 2.0.77
    • 2.0.65
    • 2.0.67
    • 2.0.73
    • 2.0.57
    • 2.0.47
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    Vendors and products

    Weakness classes (CWE)

    • CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

      Base

      The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

      Entry at MITRE CWE-22

    References & sources

    • github.comdanielgatis/rembg/commit/b2758c6b39bb2b02df90a03128110339476984…x_refsource_MISC, web
    • github.comdanielgatis/rembg/releases/tag/v2.0.82x_refsource_MISC, web
    • github.comdanielgatis/rembg/security/advisories/GHSA-qr6x-7v33-6qmgx_refsource_CONFIRM, web
    • NVD (NIST)vuln/detail/CVE-2026-115924advisory
    • github.comdanielgatis/rembgpackage

    Changes to this CVE

    Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).

    1. ReceivedGitHub

      CVSS V3.1: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L

      Weakness type: CWE-22

      Description added or changed

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      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Descriptionadded
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      Rembg is a tool to remove images background. Prior to 2.0.82, the public /api/remove endpoint passes attacker-controlled extras.sam_model through rembg/commands/s_command.py to rembg/sessions/sam.py, where it is interpolated into SAM filenames and GitHub download URLs passed to pooch.retrieve() without a pinned hash. An unauthenticated attacker can supply a sam_model value combining path traversal with URL fragment syntax to exploit the HTTP request discarding the fragment while the local POSIX path retains it. The first request primes the attacker-selected path tree, and an identical repeated request downloads malicious ONNX encoder and decoder files beside a readable target file. The graphs can load the target through ONNX external data and encode its bytes into the returned PNG mask, disclosing complete files accessible to the rembg process and allowing arbitrary ONNX computation. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.82.
      CVSSadded
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      AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
      Weakness type (CWE)added
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      CWE-22
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/115xxx/CVE-2026-115924.json">CVE-2026-115924</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg/commit/b2758c6b39bb2b02df90a03128110339476984d3
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg/releases/tag/v2.0.82
      Referenceadded
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      https://github.com/danielgatis/rembg/security/advisories/GHSA-qr6x-7v33-6qmg

      Source identifier: security-advisories@github.com

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