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GHSA-jwhx-xcg6-8xhj

In aiohttp, compressed files as symlinks are not protected from path traversal

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-42367

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
PyPI aiohttp >= 3.10.0b1, < 3.10.2 3.10.2

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### 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

References

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