Unauthenticated directory deletion via unsanitized session identifier
Published May 17, 2026 · Updated May 17, 2026
Path traversal in Aden Hive 0.11.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to delete host directories via a crafted session ID. The DELETE /api/sessions/history/{session_id} handler joins the decoded route value beneath ~/.hive/queen/session without safe_path_segment, then recursively removes the resulting directory with shutil.rmtree(). No authentication or user interaction is required; deletion is limited to directories writable by the Hive process and can destroy data or interrupt service.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in Aden Hive 0.11.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to delete host directories via a crafted session ID. The DELETE /api/sessions/history/{session_id} handler joins the decoded route value beneath ~/.hive/queen/session without safe_path_segment, then recursively removes the resulting directory with shutil.rmtree(). No authentication or user interaction is required; deletion is limited to directories writable by the Hive process and can destroy data or interrupt service.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-8757
- Published
- May 17, 2026
- Updated
- May 17, 2026
- Vendor
- Aden
- Product
- Hive
- Classifications
- CWE-22, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 17, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 17, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0.1
- Affected versionversion=0.10
- Affected versionversion=0.11.0
- Affected versionversion=0.2
- Affected versionversion=0.3
- Affected versionversion=0.4
- Affected versionversion=0.5
- Affected versionversion=0.6
- Affected versionversion=0.7
- Affected versionversion=0.8
- Affected versionversion=0.9
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