CrowdStrike has released security updates to address a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-40050) in LogScale. This vulnerability only requires mitigation by customers that host specific versions of LogScale and does not affect Next-Gen SIEM customers. The vulnerability exists in a specific cluster API endpoint that, if exposed, allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem without authentication.
Next-Gen SIEM customers are not affected and do not need to take any action. CrowdStrike mitigated the vulnerability for LogScale SaaS customers by deploying network-layer blocks to all clusters on April 7, 2026. We have proactively reviewed all log data and there is no evidence of exploitation.
LogScale Self-hosted customers should upgrade to a patched version immediately to remediate the vulnerability.
CrowdStrike identified this vulnerability during continuous and ongoing product testing.
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| Description | CrowdStrike has released security updates to address a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-40050) in LogScale. This vulnerability only requires mitigation by customers that host specific versions of LogScale and does not affect Next-Gen SIEM customers. The vulnerability exists in a specific cluster API endpoint that, if exposed, allows a remote attacker to read arbitrary files from the server filesystem without authentication. Next-Gen SIEM customers are not affected and do not need to take any action. CrowdStrike mitigated the vulnerability for LogScale SaaS customers by deploying network-layer blocks to all clusters on April 7, 2026. We have proactively reviewed all log data and there is no evidence of exploitation. LogScale Self-hosted customers should upgrade to a patched version immediately to remediate the vulnerability. CrowdStrike identified this vulnerability during continuous and ongoing product testing. | |
| Title | CrowdStrike LogScale Unauthenticated Path Traversal | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-22 CWE-306 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CrowdStrike
Published: 2026-04-21T16:48:24.722Z
Updated: 2026-04-21T17:25:29.299Z
Reserved: 2026-04-08T18:55:21.490Z
Link: CVE-2026-40050
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-04-21T17:16:53.610
Modified: 2026-04-22T21:24:26.997
Link: CVE-2026-40050
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