CVE-2026-118038: Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries
The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) record says Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries before version 2026.3.1027 have a path traversal flaw in the Convert and Merge AI agent tools that lets an authenticated low-privilege attacker who can supply tool arguments read, and where writable overwrite, files outside the configured output directory.
The record
- Kind
- Vulnerability
- Source record
- CVE-2026-118038: In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, a path traversal vulnerabili (National Vulnerability Database record)
- Record published
- 2026-10-28
- Posted here
- 2026-10-29
- World
- Software agents · Enterprise work agents
- Controls concerned
- Least-privilege credential scoped to task C-E1
- Checked
- Checked against its record on 2026-10-29 by a reader who did not draft it; report
verification/reports/SIG-2026-10-29-004-2026-10-29.md.
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- 2026-10-29: Title. Independent read on 29 October 2026: the drafted title was the record's first words cut mid-sentence ('In Progress® Telerik® ...'), which reads as a status; the product is named as the record names it.
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