CVE-2026-31978

Summary: CVE-2026-31978 affects motionEye (pre-0.44.0). A path traversal flaw in the picture/movie preview endpoints (/picture/{id}/preview/{filename}) allows an authenticated, non-admin user to read arbitrary files on the host filesystem via the get_media_preview() path, since it doesn’t check f...

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...