GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io

GHSA-qrqq-9c63-xfrg tower-http's improper validation of Windows paths could lead to directory traversal attack

HIGH Published 2022-08-11 Modified 2022-08-11 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
crates.io
Packages
tower-http
Severity
High
Reviewed
2022-08-11

Affected packages

• crates.io tower-http: >= 0.2.0, < 0.2.1 → fixed in 0.2.1 • crates.io tower-http: < 0.1.3 → fixed in 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. [tower-http#204]: https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-http/pull/204

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