VulnerabilityPublished 26 Oct 2026

CVE-2026-95628: Apache Camel · Path Traversal

Affects Apache CamelSource CVE Database V5

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-40047

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 5.4 Medium : upgrade to 4.22.2 or 4.18.5 when convenient.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 13:47 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score

5.4Medium

How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 26% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 4.22.2, 4.18.5

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

Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Low
Privileges Required: Low
User Interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: Low
Availability: Low

Bold values are the worst case: easiest to exploit or largest impact.

Attack Vector: Network: The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack and the set of possible attackers extends beyond the other options listed, up to and including the entire Internet. Such a vulnerability is often termed 'remotely exploitable' and can be thought of as an attack being exploitable at the protocol level one or more network hops away (e.g., across one or more routers).
Attack Complexity: Low: Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success against the vulnerable component.
Privileges Required: Low: The attacker is authorized with (i.e., requires) privileges that provide basic user capabilities that could normally affect only settings and files owned by a user. Alternatively, an attacker with Low privileges may have the ability to cause an impact only to non-sensitive resources.
User Interaction: None: The vulnerable system can be exploited without any interaction from any user.
Scope: Unchanged: An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
Confidentiality: None: There is no loss of confidentiality within the impacted component.
Integrity: Low: Modification of data is possible, but the attacker does not have control over the consequence of a modification, or the amount of modification is limited. The data modification does not have a direct, serious impact on the impacted component.
Availability: Low: Performance is reduced or there are interruptions in resource availability. Even if repeated exploitation of the vulnerability is possible, the attacker does not have the ability to completely deny service to legitimate users. The resources in the impacted component are either partially available all of the time, or fully available only some of the time, but overall there is no direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.

Definitions: FIRST CVSS v3.1 specification.

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 26 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 26 Oct 2026.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC or the CVSS exploit maturity reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Apache to 4.22.2 or 4.18.5.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Apache Camelorg.apache.camel:camel-docling	Affected >=4.19.0 <4.22.2	Fixed in 4.22.2
Apache Camelorg.apache.camel:camel-docling	Affected >=4.15.0 <4.18.5	Fixed in 4.18.5
MavenApache Software Foundation/org.apache.camel:camel-docling`pkg:maven/Apache Software Foundation/org.apache.camel:camel-docling`Other threats	Affected >=4.15.0 <4.18.5 >=4.19.0 <4.22.2	Fixed in 4.18.5 4.22.2

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AI-suggested

A fix is available in Apache Camel versions 4.18.5 and 4.22.2; users should upgrade to these or later supported versions. Versions 4.15.x to 4.17.x and 4.19.x to 4.21.x are end-of-life and will not receive fixes, so upgrading to a supported release is necessary. For deployments unable to upgrade immediately, do not construct the CamelDoclingCustomArguments header from untrusted external inputs, remove this header from messages originating outside the deployment before they reach a docling endpoint, and ensure that consumers mapping incoming message headers drop the Camel header namespace to prevent unauthorized header propagation.

Description

CVE-2026-95628 is a path traversal vulnerability in the Apache Camel Docling component affecting versions from 4.15.0 before 4.18.5 and from 4.19.0 before 4.22.2. The flaw allows absolute paths to bypass path safety checks, enabling an attacker who can control custom arguments to point the docling process to arbitrary directories accessible by the Camel process. This undermines the intended directory restriction and can lead to unauthorized access or impact on the system. The issue is fixed in Apache Camel versions 4.18.5 and 4.22.2, with earlier unsupported versions requiring upgrade to a supported release. Mitigations include avoiding use of externally sourced custom arguments and filtering headers that carry these arguments.

Impact

The vulnerability allows an attacker with the ability to supply custom arguments to the docling tool to specify absolute paths, potentially accessing or manipulating files outside the intended restricted directory. This can lead to limited integrity and availability impacts on the system running Apache Camel. The CVSS score of 5.4 (medium severity) reflects the network attack vector with low complexity, requiring low privileges and no user interaction, and impacts limited to integrity and availability.

CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (opens in a new tab)
Base weaknessLikelihood of exploit: HighCWE Top 25 (2025): #6OWASP Top 10 A01:2025: Broken Access Control (opens in a new tab)
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
Implementation · Input Validation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
Architecture and Design
For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks…
Implementation · Input Validation
Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174).
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Authorization (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.3.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
Path Traversal (opens in a new tab)
Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic (opens in a new tab)
Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls (opens in a new tab)
Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding (opens in a new tab)
Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 26 Oct 2026, 09:02 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-22

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