CVE-2026-42314: Pyload-NG Project Pyload-NG

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

pyLoad is a free and open-source download manager written in Python. Prior to 0.5.0b3.dev100, package folder names are sanitized using insufficient string replacement. The pattern ....// becomes .._ after replacement (partial removal), leaving .. which can be exploited when the path is later resolved by the OS. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.5.0b3.dev100.

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Published 2026-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.