CVE-2026-102991

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: MODERATE) published 2026-10-05. A secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2026-90363 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5639-2j2p-m4mx (GitHub Security Advisories) · PYSEC-2026-4243 (OSV.dev)Source: ENISA EUVD

6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Mako is a template library written in Python. Prior to 1.4.2, on Windows, TemplateLookup.get_template() in mako/lookup.py resolves template URIs with posixpath, while Template.__init__() in mako/template.py validates them with os.path, which uses ntpath. A URI beginning with a drive designator causes ntpath to absorb the traversal segments before the leading dot-dot check, while posixpath resolution can escape the configured template directory. An application that passes attacker-controlled template names or include paths can disclose process-readable files on the same volume, and a targeted file containing Mako template syntax may also be parsed and executed as a template. Raw URL paths are generally normalized before reaching this form, but query strings, form or JSON bodies, route parameters, and dynamic include expressions can preserve it. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.2.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMhigh confidence
EG Risk
45
EG Risk 45/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
29th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 30, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 30, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit, github_release.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Path traversal via drive-letter URI on Windows in TemplateLookup · Advisory · sqlalchemy/mako · GitHub

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/security/advisories/GHSA-5639-2j2p-m4mx
GitHub release Patch Available

1.4.2

Patch available: sqlalchemy/mako rel_1_4_2

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/releases/tag/rel_1_4_2
Web page

drive designator handling issue in template URI normalization on Windows · Issue #441 · sqlalchemy/mako · GitHub

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/issues/441
GitHub commit Patch Available

commit 000ed85e4e48 (sqlalchemy/mako)

Patch available: sqlalchemy/mako rel_1_4_2 (contains commit 000ed85e4e48)

https://github.com/sqlalchemy/mako/commit/000ed85e4e48771eff460bf4fc721fb43de80e08

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-102991(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
pipMako @ 1.4.2 (fixes <= 1.4.1)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
mako0.1.0 ... 1.4.1 (81 versions)
  • every version up to 1.4.2: fixed in 1.4.2
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 51× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-01 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 08:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5639-2j2p-m4mx · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.5
  3. 2026-11-01 08:00 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-31 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  5. 2026-10-31 12:25 UTCOSV refresh
  6. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  7. 2026-10-29 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  8. 2026-10-28 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  9. 2026-10-27 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  10. 2026-10-26 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  11. 2026-10-25 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 29th percentile
  12. 2026-10-25 14:56 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  14. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 09:27 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 09:27 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-22 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  18. 2026-10-21 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 28th percentile
  19. 2026-10-20 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  20. 2026-10-19 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  21. 2026-10-18 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  22. 2026-10-18 05:10 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-17 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  24. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  25. 2026-10-15 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  3. 2026-10-12 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  5. 2026-10-11 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-11 16:47 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 16:47 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-11 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  10. 2026-10-10 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  11. 2026-10-10 14:47 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-09 20:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  13. 2026-10-09 12:45 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-09 12:45 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-08 17:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  16. 2026-10-08 10:44 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-08 10:44 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-07 23:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  19. 2026-10-07 08:27 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-07 08:27 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  22. 2026-10-06 06:26 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-05 17:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  24. 2026-10-05 04:26 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  26. 2026-10-04 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 27th percentile
  28. 2026-10-03 00:26 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-10-01 22:25 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 32nd percentile
  31. 2026-09-30 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-09-30 19:56 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-30 19:51 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 6.5 MEDIUM
  34. 2026-09-30 19:50 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-102991?
CVE-2026-102991 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 30, 2026. Mako is a template library written in Python. Prior to 1.4.2, on Windows, TemplateLookup.get_template() in mako/lookup.py resolves template URIs with posixpath, while Template.__init__() in mako/template.py validates them with os.path, which uses ntpath. A URI beginning with a drive designator…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-102991 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-102991 was published on September 30, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-102991 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-102991 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (29th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-102991?
CVE-2026-102991 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-102991?
A fix for CVE-2026-102991 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-102991 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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