Black Lantern Security BBOT up to 2.8.5 Postman API path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Black Lantern Security BBOT up to 2.8.5. This affects an unknown function of the component Postman API. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-12568. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Black Lantern Security BBOT up to 2.8.5. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Postman API. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. 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. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The postman_download module uses the workspace name field from the Postman API to construct the local directory path without sanitization. If a malicious workspace has a name containing path traversal characters, pathlib resolves the path outside the intended output directory, allowing an attacker to write arbitrary files to the user's system.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-12568 since 06/17/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com.

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• Black Lantern Security

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• BBOT

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• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5

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• open-source

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