CVE-2016-10726: Duraspace Dspace

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The XMLUI feature in DSpace before 3.6, 4.x before 4.5, and 5.x before 5.5 allows directory traversal via the themes/ path in an attack with two or more arbitrary characters and a colon before a pathname, as demonstrated by a themes/Reference/aa:etc/passwd URI.

Affected products

• Duraspace Dspace: before 3.6 (fixed in 3.6); from 4.0, before 4.5 (fixed in 4.5); from 5.0, before 5.5 (fixed in 5.5)

Published 2018-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.