GHSA-4qcx-jx49-6qrh: aim (CVE-2024-8769)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
aim	PyPI	>=3.15.0, <=3.27.0	No fixed version yet

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The PyPI package aim, versions 3.15.0 through 3.27.0, has a path traversal flaw in LockManager.release_locks, where a user-controllable run_hash value is concatenated into a file path without normalization. An attacker who can reach the tracking server's instruction API could use this to delete arbitrary files on the machine running the server. The source does not list a fixed version, so no upgrade target is given.

Written 31 Oct 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.1	Critical	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H	CNA (@huntr_ai)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0093, the 60th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:07 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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