# SA-2026-022: The conductor's drain used server-supplied names as file paths

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Security advisory SA-2026-022 (low, fixed): The conductor's drain used server-supplied names as file paths.

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# SA-2026-022: The conductor's drain used server-supplied names as file paths

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| **Severity** | low |
| **Status** | fixed |
| **Weakness** | CWE-22 |
| **Component** | `admin/build/conductor_drain.py` |
| **Found by** | security@php.newsroom (pass 3 review) |
| **Found** | 2026-10-24 |
| **Fixed in** | v0.14.26 |
| **Fixed by** | security@php.newsroom |

## What it is

File ids and member names from the vault server's response were joined into paths.

## What an attacker could do

A compromised or spoofed server could write files outside the vault, into the repository.

**How:** The server returns file_id "../../...".

## Root cause

Trusting the server's response shape.

## What contributed
- The same fix had been made in the collaborators drain (SA-2026-013) but not carried to its sibling.

## What was not in place

Shared helpers for drains.

## The fix

Both names are reduced to [A-Za-z0-9_-].

## What prevents it now

Proposed: one shared drain library.


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