GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-grm4-wm43-9jh5 Contao: Possible path traversal in job download URIs
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-55825
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- contao/contao, contao/core-bundle
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-06
Affected packages
• Packagist contao/contao: >= 5.7.0, < 5.7.7 → fixed in 5.7.7
• Packagist contao/core-bundle: >= 5.7.0, < 5.7.7 → fixed in 5.7.7
Description
Summary
An authenticated backend user who can access one job can request an attachment identifier containing `../` segments and make the job attachment download endpoint read a file from another job directory inside `var/job-attachments`.
The controller authorizes only the `jobUuid` route parameter. The later attachment lookup joins that authorized job UUID with the attacker-controlled `identifier`, then passes the combined path to the virtual filesystem. `VirtualFilesystem::resolve()` canonicalizes the whole path and only rejects paths that escape the filesystem mount, so `authorized-job/../victim-job/debug_log.csv` becomes `victim-job/debug_log.csv`.
This is a cross-job authorization bypass for known job attachment paths. It is not a practical brute-force against unknown jobs because job directories are UUID v4 values.
Root Cause
`JobsController::downloadJobAttachment()` checks access to the route `jobUuid` before loading the attachment:
```php
$job = $this->jobs->getByUuid($jobUuid);
if (!$job || !$this->jobs->hasAccess($job)) {
throw $this->createNotFoundException();
}
$attachment = $this->jobs->getAttachment($jobUuid, $identifier);
```
`Jobs::getAttachment()` then resolves a path built from the authorized job UUID and the attacker-controlled identifier:
```php
$fileItem = $this->jobAttachmentsStorage->get($this->getAttachmentIdentifier($job, $identifier));
```
```php
return $job->getUuid().'/'.$identifier;
```
`VirtualFilesystem::resolve()` canonicalizes the combined path. It rejects absolute paths and paths that start with `..`, but it does not preserve the authorized job directory as a boundary:
```php
$path = Path::canonicalize($location);
if (str_starts_with($path, '..')) {
throw new \OutOfBoundsException(...);
}
return Path::join($this->prefix, $path);
```
Therefore:
```text
/..//debug_log.csv
```
canonicalizes to:
```text
/debug_log.csv
```
which remains inside the `job-attachments` filesystem mount and is accepted.
Recommended Fix
Treat the attachment identifier as a filename, not a path:
• Reject `/`, `\`, NUL, and dot-segment components in `identifier`.
• Add a route requirement that prevents slashes in `{identifier}` if nested attachment paths are not intended.
• After resolving, assert the canonical relative path starts with `/` before returning a `FilesystemItem`.
• Apply the same identifier validation in `Jobs::addAttachment()` so future producers/extensions cannot write outside the owning job directory.
Impact
A low-privileged backend user can read another job's attachment if they know or obtain the target job UUID and attachment filename. Built-in crawler jobs attach CSV logs such as `debug_log.csv`, `broken-link-checker_log.csv`, and `search-index_log.csv`, which can contain crawled URLs, referring URLs, tags, and error messages.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-55825 Contao is an Open Source CMS. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-grm4-wm43-9jh5 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55825 advisory
- https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/path-traversal-in-the-jobs-module web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/contao/CVE-2026-55825.yaml web
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/core-bundle/CVE-2026-55825.yaml web
- https://github.com/contao/contao package