CVE-2026-40005: Apache IoTDB: Path Traversal in Pipe File Transfer Receiver

[Haonan Hou <haonan () apache org>]

Severity: important 

Affected versions:

- Apache IoTDB 1.0.0 before 2.0.10

Description:

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in Apache IoTDB.
An attacker can write arbitrary files anywhere the IoTDB process has write permissions with unsafe API.


This issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 1.0.0 before 2.0.10.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.10, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

Andrea Cosentino (finder)

References:

https://iotdb.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40005