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vuln-fix: Partial Path Traversal Vulnerability (#466)
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This fixes a partial path traversal vulnerability.

Replaces `dir.getCanonicalPath().startsWith(parent.getCanonicalPath())`, which is vulnerable to partial path traversal attacks, with the more secure `dir.getCanonicalFile().toPath().startsWith(parent.getCanonicalFile().toPath())`.

To demonstrate this vulnerability, consider `"/usr/outnot".startsWith("/usr/out")`.
The check is bypassed although `/outnot` is not under the `/out` directory.
It's important to understand that the terminating slash may be removed when using various `String` representations of the `File` object.
For example, on Linux, `println(new File("/var"))` will print `/var`, but `println(new File("/var", "/")` will print `/var/`;
however, `println(new File("/var", "/").getCanonicalPath())` will print `/var`.

Weakness: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Severity: Medium
CVSSS: 6.1
Detection: CodeQL & OpenRewrite (https://public.moderne.io/recipes/org.openrewrite.java.security.PartialPathTraversalVulnerability)

Reported-by: Jonathan Leitschuh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Leitschuh <[email protected]>

Bug-tracker: JLLeitschuh/security-research#13

Co-authored-by: Moderne <[email protected]>

Co-authored-by: Moderne <[email protected]>
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JLLeitschuh and TeamModerne authored Sep 8, 2022
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/main/java/net/lingala/zip4j/util/FileUtils.java
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Expand Up @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ public static String getRelativeFileName(File fileToAdd, ZipParameters zipParame
String rootPath = new File(fileToAdd.getParentFile().getCanonicalFile().getPath() + File.separator + fileToAdd.getCanonicalFile().getName()).getPath();
tmpFileName = rootPath.substring(rootFolderFileRef.length());
} else {
if (!fileCanonicalPath.startsWith(rootFolderFileRef)) {
if (!fileToAdd.getCanonicalFile().toPath().startsWith(rootFolderFileRef)) {
tmpFileName = fileToAdd.getCanonicalFile().getParentFile().getName() + FILE_SEPARATOR + fileToAdd.getCanonicalFile().getName();
} else {
tmpFileName = fileCanonicalPath.substring(rootFolderFileRef.length());
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