CVE-2018-13864: Lightbend Play Framework

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A directory traversal vulnerability has been found in the Assets controller in Play Framework 2.6.12 through 2.6.15 (fixed in 2.6.16) when running on Windows. It allows a remote attacker to download arbitrary files from the target server via specially crafted HTTP requests.

Affected products

• Lightbend Play Framework: from 2.6.12, up to and including 2.6.15

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