Pre-auth file deletion via poisoned sessions
Published May 25, 2026 · Updated May 25, 2026
Arbitrary file deletion in Roundcube Webmail 1.6.0 through 1.6.15 and 1.7.0 allows remote attackers to delete server files before authentication. Poisoned Redis or Memcache session data restores handler objects with attacker-selected temporary-file paths, whose destructors call unlink(). Exposure requires nondefault Redis or Memcache session storage, and deletion is limited to files writable by the web-server account.
Summary
What happened
Arbitrary file deletion in Roundcube Webmail 1.6.0 through 1.6.15 and 1.7.0 allows remote attackers to delete server files before authentication. Poisoned Redis or Memcache session data restores handler objects with attacker-selected temporary-file paths, whose destructors call unlink(). Exposure requires nondefault Redis or Memcache session storage, and deletion is limited to files writable by the web-server account.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-48847
- Published
- May 25, 2026
- Updated
- May 25, 2026
- Vendor
- Roundcube
- Product
- Roundcube Webmail
- Classifications
- CWE-669, T1070.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 25, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 25, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.6.0 <1.6.16
- Affected versionversion=1.7.0 <1.7.1
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