Vulnerability · Published May 27, 2021 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2021-32643StaticFile.fromUrl can leak presence of a directory

Medium 5.8

In plain English

A medium-severity path traversal in http4s from http4s. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.8Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 27.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. `StaticFile.fromUrl` can leak the presence of a directory on a server when the `URL` scheme is not `file://`, and the URL points to a fetchable resource under its scheme and authority. The function returns `F[None]`, indicating no resource, if `url.getFile` is a directory, without first checking the scheme or authority of the URL. If a URL connection to the scheme and URL would return a stream, and the path in the URL exists as a directory on the server, the presence of the directory on the server could be inferred from the 404 response. The contents and other metadata about the directory are not exposed. This affects http4s versions: 0.21.7 through 0.21.23, 0.22.0-M1 through 0.22.0-M8, 0.23.0-M1, and 1.0.0-M1 through 1.0.0-M22. The [patch](https://github.com/http4s/http4s/commit/52e1890665410b4385e37b96bc49c5e3c708e4e9) is available in the following versions: v0.21.24, v0.22.0-M9, v0.23.0-M2, v1.0.0-M23. As a workaround users can avoid calling `StaticFile.fromUrl` with non-file URLs.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-core0.21.24GHSA-6h7w-fc84-x7p6
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-core0.22.0-RC1GHSA-6h7w-fc84-x7p6
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-core0.23.0-RC1GHSA-6h7w-fc84-x7p6
Mavenorg.http4s:http4s-core1.0.0-M23GHSA-6h7w-fc84-x7p6

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
http4s http4s >= 0.21.7, < 0.21.24>= 0.22.0-M1, <= 0.22.0-M8= 0.23.0-M1>= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M23

Weakness: CWE-22 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

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