A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Sanster IOPaint 1.5.3. Impacted is the function _get_file of the file iopaint/file_manager/file_manager.py of the component File Manager. Performing a manipulation of the argument filename results in path traversal.

This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-5258. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.