Typemill up to 2.25.x Media authorization

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A vulnerability has been found in Typemill up to 2.25.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Media. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-71518. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Typemill up to 2.25.x. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Media. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-639. The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Typemill before 2.26.0 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability in the media file download route that allows unauthenticated attackers to access restricted files by submitting path-equivalent URL variants. Attackers can substitute normalized path forms such as dot-slash prefixes, double slashes, or percent-encoded sequences to pass role-based restriction checks while the filesystem resolves the request to the protected file, enabling unauthorized file download without credentials.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-71518 since 08/06/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.26.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Name

• Typemill

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25

Website

• Product: https://github.com/typemill/typemill/

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