A vulnerability was found in better-auth better-icons up to 1.0.5 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component scan_project_icons/sync_icon. Such manipulation of the argument icons_file leads to path traversal.

This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-15527. An attack has to be approached locally. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.