GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-jwhx-xcg6-8xhj In aiohttp, compressed files as symlinks are not protected from path traversal

MEDIUM Published 2024-08-09 Modified 2025-06-09 Official page ↗
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. ---- 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