CVE-2026-29778: Pyload-NG Project Pyload-NG

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. From version 0.5.0b3.dev13 to 0.5.0b3.dev96, the edit_package() function implements insufficient sanitization for the pack_folder parameter. The current protection relies on a single-pass string replacement of "../", which can be bypassed using crafted recursive traversal sequences. This issue has been patched in version 0.5.0b3.dev97.

Affected products

• Pyload-NG Project Pyload-NG: from 0.5.0b3.dev13, before 0.5.0b3.dev97 (fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev97)

Published 2026-03-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.