CVE-2026-72813

MediumCVSS 6.9

Published: 14/08/2026(UTC)Updated: 29/10/2026(UTC)Translated: 14/08/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.49%

42th percentile - higher than 42% of all known CVEs

Summary

actix-files before 0.6.10 contains a denial of service vulnerability triggered by an empty Range header in GET requests for static files. When panic is set to abort, remote attackers can crash the process on-demand by sending a GET request with an empty Range header.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes service disruption, potentially leading to application unavailability and business interruption.

Recommendation

Update actix-files to version 0.6.10 or later and consider changing the panic setting to unwind if possible.

Other vulnerabilities in actix-files

CVE-2026-72814Medium
The actix-files crate (actix_files) before version 0.6.10 contains an information exposure vulnerability. When a non-existing folder is passed as the serve_from argument to Files::new(), the mount path defaults to an empty path; the service then joins the request path with this empty path and canonicalizes it, causing Rust to resolve it as a relative path. As a result, an attacker can request paths that resolve relative to the application's working directory and access unintended files.

Original NVD description (English source)

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