CVE-2026-55488 motionEye's Absolute Path Traversal in Media File Handlers Allows Arbitrary File Read

motionEye mEye is an online interface for a piece of software called "motion," which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 contain an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files fro...

EUVD-2026-38804

motionEye mEye is an online interface for a piece of software called "motion," which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 contain an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files fro...

CVE-2026-55488 motionEye's Absolute Path Traversal in Media File Handlers Allows Arbitrary File Read

motionEye mEye is an online interface for a piece of software called "motion," which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 contain an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files fro...

CVE-2026-32315: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

motionEye mEye is an online interface for motion software, a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 create the configuration file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf with 644 permissions -rw-r--r--, making it readable by any local user on the system. This file contains...

CVE-2026-55488: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

motionEye mEye is an online interface for a piece of software called "motion," which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 contain an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files fro...

CVE-2026-31978: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

motionEye mEye is an online interface for motion software, which is a video surveillance program with motion detection. Versions prior to 0.44.0 are vulnerable to path traversal in the picture and movie API endpoints, suhc as /picture/id/preview/filename. Neither the API handlers, nor the...

GHSA-PHV5-334H-MXCW motionEye Partial Authentication Bypass: Unauthenticated Admin Credential Theft via Path Traversal

Partial Authentication Bypass: Unauthenticated Admin Credential Theft via Path Traversal Summary Myself and others have reported several RCE vulnerabilities to this project. However, due to the nature of the app, these are largely not of all that much value, as there is built-in functionality to...

Missing Authorization

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization via the post function in the ActionHandler process. An attacker can execute camera actions such as triggering snapshots, starting or stopping video recording, or running configured action scripts without...

GHSA-J67X-Q29F-QCVV motionEye's missing authentication on ActionHandler allows unauthenticated camera action execution

Summary The ActionHandler.post method in motionEye has no authentication decorator, allowing any unauthenticated attacker to trigger camera actions including snapshots, recording start/stop, and configured action scripts PTZ controls, alarm triggers, etc.. Vulnerability Details File:...

motionEye's missing authentication on ActionHandler allows unauthenticated camera action execution

Summary The ActionHandler.post method in motionEye has no authentication decorator, allowing any unauthenticated attacker to trigger camera actions including snapshots, recording start/stop, and configured action scripts PTZ controls, alarm triggers, etc.. Vulnerability Details File:...

GHSA-RW9Q-97R9-8GVH motionEye's Absolute Path Traversal in Media File Handlers Allows Arbitrary File Read

Summary mEye contains an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files from the filesystem. The affected handlers accept a user-controlled filename parameter and construct filesystem paths using os.path.join. When an absolute...

motionEye's Absolute Path Traversal in Media File Handlers Allows Arbitrary File Read

Summary mEye contains an absolute path traversal vulnerability in multiple media file handlers that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files from the filesystem. The affected handlers accept a user-controlled filename parameter and construct filesystem paths using os.path.join. When an absolute...

motionEye: Authentication possible via password hash

Summary An authentication bypass vulnerability exists due to improper trust in client-controlled cookies. The application accepts user-supplied cookie values containing a username and password-hash-derived value as sufficient authentication material. These cookies can be set or modified prior to...

Use of Password Hash Instead of Password for Authentication

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Password Hash Instead of Password for Authentication via the improper validation of authentication cookies. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to arbitrary user accounts by setting or modifying the meyepasswordhash and...

GHSA-R3CW-C95M-WFH9 motionEye: Authentication possible via password hash

Summary An authentication bypass vulnerability exists due to improper trust in client-controlled cookies. The application accepts user-supplied cookie values containing a username and password-hash-derived value as sufficient authentication material. These cookies can be set or modified prior to...

GHSA-RHGP-6WQ6-9J67 motionEye's World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash

Security Advisory: World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash in motionEye Summary motionEye v0.43.1 and prior versions create the configuration file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf with 644 permissions -rw-r--r--, making it readable by any local user on the system. This file contai...

motionEye's World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash

Security Advisory: World-Readable Configuration File Exposes Admin Password Hash in motionEye Summary motionEye v0.43.1 and prior versions create the configuration file /etc/motioneye/motion.conf with 644 permissions -rw-r--r--, making it readable by any local user on the system. This file contai...

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource due to the configuration file being created with overly permissive file permissions, allowing any local user to read sensitive information such as the admin password hash. An attacke...

Access Control Bypass

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass via the getmediapreview process. An attacker can access sensitive files on the server by sending crafted requests containing encoded path traversal sequences in the filename parameter. This allows disclosure of...

motionEye has an Arbitrary File Read via Path Traversal in Picture/Movie Preview Endpoint

Summary motionEye v0.43.1 latest stable is vulnerable to path traversal in the picture and movie API endpoints, like /picture/id/preview/filename. Neither the API handlers, nor the mediafiles.py functions like getmediapreview check for .. sequences in the filename parameter, except getmediaconten...