The file-serving fallback joined a request-derived path onto the
configured response directory and checked only that the result existed,
never that it stayed inside that directory. A request containing a raw
.. segment could read any file readable by the process, returned with
HTTP 200.
Read-only: no write, no code execution.
Exposure depends on the bind address. The default is 127.0.0.1;
deployments binding 0.0.0.0 or a LAN address are reachable from the
network. Most HTTP clients normalise .. away before sending, so
reaching it requires a client that does not.
All published versions before 5.19.1 are affected. Fixed in 5.19.1 by canonicalising each resolved path and rejecting anything outside its base directory.
This advisory also covers apimock 5.x, which depends on
apimock-server. apimock 4.x predates the crate split and carries its
own advisory for the same issue, fixed in 4.8.1.
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