Proxmox CVE

ESXi importer: path traversal in vmx parser

PSA-2026-00066-1 PVE

Affected packages

libpve-storage-perl

Details

Incomplete path validation in the ESXi importer allowed an attacker with access to a configured ESXi instance with privileges to trigger imports to leak arbitrary file contents of paths ending in .vmx.

This issue was reported privately by Ibrahim Aljaafreh from Cystack RedTeam.

Fixed in

  • libpve-storage-perl >= 9.1.12

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