Published Aug 27, 2026Sources checked Oct 27, 2026
7.1HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-81838 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.1. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-81838?
A relative path traversal issue in the zip extraction functionality in AWS diagram-as-code (awsdac) in versions 0.10 through 0.23 can allow a third party to write arbitrary files to the local filesystem via crafted zip entry names containing path traversal sequences. This could allow the third party to perform inappropriate actions in the diagram bundle.
To remediate this issue, users should upgrade to the version 0.24 or later.