GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-jwhx-xcg6-8xhj In aiohttp, compressed files as symlinks are not protected from path traversal
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-42367
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- aiohttp
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-61
- Reviewed
- 2024-08-09
Affected packages
• PyPI aiohttp: >= 3.10.0b1, < 3.10.2 → fixed in 3.10.2
Description
Summary
Static routes which contain files with compressed variants (`.gz` or `.br` extension) were vulnerable to path traversal outside the root directory if those variants are symbolic links.
Details
The server protects static routes from path traversal outside the root directory when `follow_symlinks=False` (default). It does this by resolving the requested URL to an absolute path and then checking that path relative to the root. However, these checks are not performed when looking for compressed variants in the `FileResponse` class, and symbolic links are then automatically followed when performing `Path.stat()` and `Path.open()` to send the file.
Impact
Servers with static routes that contain compressed variants as symbolic links, pointing outside the root directory, or that permit users to upload or create such links, are impacted.
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Patch: https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8653/files
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-42367 aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-61 UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following weakness
References
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-jwhx-xcg6-8xhj web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42367 advisory
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/pull/8653 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/commit/ce2e9758814527589b10759a20783fb03b98339f web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp package
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/blob/e0ff5246e1d29b7710ab1a2bbc972b48169f1c05/aiohttp/web_fileresponse.py#L177 web
- https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/blob/e0ff5246e1d29b7710ab1a2bbc972b48169f1c05/aiohttp/web_urldispatcher.py#L674 web