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Description

motionEye (mEye) is an online interface for motion software, which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 are vulnerable to path traversal in the picture and movie API endpoints, suhc as /picture/{id}/preview/{filename}. Neither the API handlers, nor the mediafiles.py functions such as get_media_preview() check for .. sequences in the filename parameter, except for get_media_content(). This allows an authenticated user with normal (non-admin) privileges to read arbitrary files from the filesystem as the motionEye process user, such as: /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, motionEye config files containing password hashes and plaintext passwords, SSH keys, and other cameras' surveillance footage. This issue has been fixed in version 0.44.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-10 | Published 2026-06-24 | Updated 2026-06-25 | Assigner GitHub_M




MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

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

CWE-284: Improper Access Control

Product status

< 0.44.0
affected

References

github.com/...ioneye/security/advisories/GHSA-g9fx-5r4h-pcw3 exploit

github.com/...ioneye/security/advisories/GHSA-g9fx-5r4h-pcw3

github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/releases/tag/0.44.0

cve.org (CVE-2026-31978)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-31978)

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