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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72903"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T20:39:57.054Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-11T14:57:24.700Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72903"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72903.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72903"
title: "Tabby: Windows SFTP path traversal allows a malicious server to write files outside the selected download directory"
summary: "Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator. Prior to 1.0.235, a malicious SFTP server can return a backslash traversal filename through entry.name. In tabby-ssh/src/session/sftp.ts, SFTPSession.readdir() and _makeFile() use POSIX path processing that preserves the backslashes as ordinary filename characters. In tabby-ssh/src/components/sftpPanel.component.ts, downloadFolderRecursive() propagates item.name into the local relative path. In tabby-electron/src/services/platform.service.ts, ElectronDirectoryDownload.createFile() passes that path to Windows-native path.join(), and in tabby-electron/src/sftpContextMenu.ts, EditSFTPContextMenu.edit() passes item.name to path.join() for the temporary edit path. Windows interprets the preserved backslashes and parent-directory components as traversal, allowing attacker-controlled content to be created or overwritten outside the selected download directory or temporary edit directory. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.235."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 1.0.235","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Eugeny","product":"tabby"}]

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