diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c834ac8b8..d016660c8 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ trio==0.19.0
 
 # Documentation
 mkdocs==1.3.0
-mkdocs-material==8.2.8
+mkdocs-material==8.3.3
 mkautodoc==0.1.0
 
 # Packaging
diff --git a/starlette/staticfiles.py b/starlette/staticfiles.py
index d09630f35..83c98466c 100644
--- a/starlette/staticfiles.py
+++ b/starlette/staticfiles.py
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ def lookup_path(
         self, path: str
     ) -> typing.Tuple[str, typing.Optional[os.stat_result]]:
         for directory in self.all_directories:
-            full_path = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(directory, path))
+            full_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(directory, path))
             directory = os.path.realpath(directory)
             if os.path.commonprefix([full_path, directory]) != directory:
                 # Don't allow misbehaving clients to break out of the static files
diff --git a/tests/test_staticfiles.py b/tests/test_staticfiles.py
index 7d13a0522..382716d49 100644
--- a/tests/test_staticfiles.py
+++ b/tests/test_staticfiles.py
@@ -441,3 +441,52 @@ def mock_timeout(*args, **kwargs):
     response = client.get("/example.txt")
     assert response.status_code == 500
     assert response.text == "Internal Server Error"
+
+
+def test_staticfiles_follows_symlinks(tmpdir, test_client_factory):
+    statics_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "statics")
+    os.mkdir(statics_path)
+
+    symlink_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "symlink")
+    os.mkdir(symlink_path)
+
+    symlink_file_path = os.path.join(symlink_path, "index.html")
+    with open(symlink_file_path, "w") as file:
+        file.write("<h1>Hello</h1>")
+
+    statics_file_path = os.path.join(statics_path, "index.html")
+    os.symlink(symlink_file_path, statics_file_path)
+
+    app = StaticFiles(directory=statics_path)
+    client = test_client_factory(app)
+
+    response = client.get("/index.html")
+    assert response.url == "http://testserver/index.html"
+    assert response.status_code == 200
+    assert response.text == "<h1>Hello</h1>"
+
+
+def test_staticfiles_disallows_path_traversal_with_symlinks(tmpdir):
+    statics_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "statics")
+    os.mkdir(statics_path)
+
+    symlink_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "symlink")
+    os.mkdir(symlink_path)
+
+    symlink_file_path = os.path.join(symlink_path, "index.html")
+    with open(symlink_file_path, "w") as file:
+        file.write("<h1>Hello</h1>")
+
+    temp_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "index.html")
+    os.symlink(symlink_file_path, temp_path)
+
+    app = StaticFiles(directory=statics_path)
+    # We can't test this with 'requests', so we test the app directly here.
+    path = app.get_path({"path": "/../index.html"})
+    scope = {"method": "GET"}
+
+    with pytest.raises(HTTPException) as exc_info:
+        anyio.run(app.get_response, path, scope)
+
+    assert exc_info.value.status_code == 404
+    assert exc_info.value.detail == "Not Found"