CVE-2026-82518

Description

Akamai CLI before 2.0.6 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows malicious packages to write files outside the install directory via unvalidated commands[].name values in cli.json. Attackers who convince victims to install or update a package can use '..' segments to overwrite executables on the user's PATH, persisting after uninstall.

References

• https://gist.github.com/thesmartshadow/39f1c49ff74099b675e2576171390003
• https://github.com/akamai/cli/blob/cae602db7ed79a173763da03a31614e8b60275ca/pkg/commands/subcommands.go#L155
• https://github.com/akamai/cli/blob/cae602db7ed79a173763da03a31614e8b60275ca/pkg/packages/golang.go#L75-L78
• https://github.com/akamai/cli/commit/03cf2e4d7db3680ee8230aa399697d74b0ec5244
• https://github.com/akamai/cli/pull/227