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RUSTSEC-2026-0276

Path traversal in apimock's file-serving fallback

Reported
Issued
Package
apimock (crates.io)
Type
Vulnerability
Categories
Keywords
#path-traversal #http #file-serving
Aliases
References
CVSS Score
8.2 HIGH
CVSS Details
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Attack Vector
Network
Privileges Required
None
Availability Impact to the Subsequent System
None
Confidentiality Impact to the Subsequent System
None
Integrity Impact to the Subsequent System
None
User Interaction
None
Availability Impact to the Vulnerable System
None
Confidentiality Impact to the Vulnerable System
High
Integrity Impact to the Vulnerable System
None
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Patched
  • >=4.8.1, <5.0.0
Unaffected
  • >=5.0.0

Description

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.

On the 4.x line apimock is a single crate containing the serving code. Fixed in 4.8.1 by canonicalising each resolved path and rejecting anything outside its base directory.

apimock 5.0.0 and later are not affected by this advisory. From 5.0.0 the serving code moved to the apimock-server crate, which apimock depends on; that crate carries its own advisory for the same issue, fixed in 5.19.1.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.