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Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in motionEye

  • Disclosed: 01.02.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 13:18

motionEye <= 0.42.1 and motioneEyeOS <= 20200606 allow a remote attacker to upload a configuration backup file containing a malicious python pickle file. This is possible when an installation is accessible over the Internet and uses no or poor authentication credentials.

The GitHub repositories for motionEye and motionEyeOS are no longer being actively maintained as of January 2022, so release of a patched version is unlikely. Keeping a motionEye or motionEyeOS installation off of the Internet and/or using strong credentials provide protection against this issue.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Python (PyPI) motioneye <= 0.42.1 no fix

References

CVSS score 7.2/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-434
Platform
Python (PyPI)
Package
motioneye
Disclosed
01.02.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 13:18

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2026-681 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-m2c7-42rf-c62f - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: motioneye

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (11) in the archive
Total entries
11
First → latest
02.2022 06.2026
Without a fix
1
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 3
  • High 5
  • Medium 3

Disclosures per year

Severity:
  1. motionEye Partial Authentication Bypass: Unauthenticated Admin Credential Theft via Path Traversal
    Critical ghsa-phv5-334h-mxcw < 0.44.0 0.44.0
  2. motionEye: LFI → pass‑the‑hash admin → unsafe restore → unauth action exec (RCE)
    Critical · 9.8 ghsa-qxvg-h7q2-hcxh < 0.44.0 0.44.0
  3. motionEye's Absolute Path Traversal in Media File Handlers Allows Arbitrary File Read
    High CVE-2026-55488 < 0.44.0 0.44.0
  4. motionEye: Authentication possible via password hash
    Critical CVE-2026-46488 < 0.44.0 0.44.0
  5. motionEye vulnerable to RCE via unsanitized motion config parameter
    High · 7.2 CVE-2025-60787 < 0.43.1b5 0.43.1b5
  6. motionEye vulnerable to RCE in add_camera Function Due to unsafe command execution
    High CVE-2025-47782 >= 0.43.1b1, < 0.43.1b4 0.43.1b4
  7. MotionEye v0.42.1 and below allows attackers to access sensitive information via a GET request to /config/list. To exploit this vulnerability, a regular user password must be unconfigured.
    High · 7.5 CVE-2022-25568 < 0.43.1b1 0.43.1b1
  8. Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in motionEye this entry
    High · 7.2 CVE-2021-44255 <= 0.42.1 no fix

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