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GHSA-6xv5-86q9-7xr8

Published Sep 7, 2023·Last modified Feb 4, 2026

Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

For Windows users of github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin, until v0.2.4 it was possible for certain rootfs and path combinations (in particular, where a malicious Unix-style /-separated unsafe path was used with a Windows-style rootfs path) to result in generated paths that were outside of the provided rootfs.

It is unclear to what extent this has a practical impact on real users, but given the possible severity of the issue we have released an emergency patch release that resolves this issue.

Thanks to @pjbgf for discovering, debugging, and fixing this issue (as well as writing some tests for it).

Patches

c121231e1276e11049547bee5ce68d5a2cfe2d9b is the patch fixing this issue. v0.2.4 contains the fix.

Workarounds

Users could use filepath.FromSlash() on all unsafe paths before passing them to filepath-securejoin.

References

See #9.

Risk Scores

Base Score

0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence

0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS

N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit

Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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