{"id":9025,"date":"2026-07-22T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/hackers-exploit-windmill-flaw-to-read-arbitrary-server-files-without-authentication\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T14:12:12","slug":"hackers-exploit-windmill-flaw-to-read-arbitrary-server-files-without-authentication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/hackers-exploit-windmill-flaw-to-read-arbitrary-server-files-without-authentication\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5), a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill&#8217;s &#8220;get_log_file&#8221; endpoint (&#8220;\/api\/w\/{workspace}\/jobs_u\/get_log_file\/{filename}&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The filename parameter is concatenated into\u00a0A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5), a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill&#8217;s &#8220;get_log_file&#8221; endpoint (&#8220;\/api\/w\/{workspace}\/jobs_u\/get_log_file\/{filename}&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The filename parameter is concatenated into\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 (CVSS score: 7.5), a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill&#8217;s &#8220;get_log_file&#8221; endpoint (&#8220;\/api\/w\/{workspace}\/jobs_u\/get_log_file\/{filename}&#8221;). &#8220;The filename parameter is concatenated into\u00a0A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/hackers-exploit-windmill-flaw-to-read-arbitrary-server-files-without-authentication\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}