tower-http's improper validation of Windows paths could lead to directory traversal attack
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Aug 11, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jun 13, 2023
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Aug 11, 2022
Reviewed
Aug 11, 2022
Last updated
Jun 13, 2023
tower_http::services::fs::ServeDir
didn't correctly validate Windows paths, meaning paths like/foo/bar/c:/windows/web/screen/img101.png
would be allowed and respond with the contents ofc:/windows/web/screen/img101.png
. Thus users could potentially read files anywhere on the filesystem.This only impacts Windows. Linux and other unix likes are not impacted by this.
See tower-http#204 for more details.
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