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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

Package

cargo tower-http (Rust)

Affected versions

= 0.2.0
< 0.1.3

Patched versions

0.2.1
0.1.3

Description

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 of c:/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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 11, 2022
Reviewed Aug 11, 2022
Last updated Jun 13, 2023

Severity

High

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-qrqq-9c63-xfrg

Source code

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