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vuln-fix: Partial Path Traversal Vulnerability
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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 <Jonathan.Leitschuh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Leitschuh <Jonathan.Leitschuh@gmail.com>

Bug-tracker: JLLeitschuh/security-research#13

Co-authored-by: Moderne <team@moderne.io>
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JLLeitschuh and TeamModerne committed Jul 29, 2022
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import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.List;

public abstract class AbstractFileSource implements FileSource {
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? new File(path).getCanonicalPath()
: new File(rootDirectory, path).getCanonicalPath();

if (!filePath.startsWith(rootPath)) {
if (!Paths.get(filePath).normalize().startsWith(rootPath)) {
throw new NotAuthorisedException("Access to file " + path + " is not permitted");
}
} catch (IOException ioe) {
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