Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-26265

Medium

Published: 21 February 2023

Published
21 February 2023
Modified
14 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.7th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-26265 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Borg Project Borg. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The Borg theme before 1.1.19 for Backdrop CMS does not sufficiently sanitize path arguments that are passed in via a URL. The function borg_preprocess_page in the file template.php does not properly sanitize incoming path arguments before using them.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

borg project
borg
≤ 1.1.19

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References