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Partial path traversal vulnerability

Recipe IDorg.openrewrite.java.security.PartialPathTraversalVulnerability
Artifactorg.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security

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.

Single recipeCWE-22Proprietary

Usage

This recipe has no required configuration options. You’ll need the Moderne CLI configured before running the command below.

mod run . --recipe org.openrewrite.java.security.PartialPathTraversalVulnerability

If the recipe isn’t available locally, install it with:

mod config recipes jar install org.openrewrite.recipe:rewrite-java-security:3.36.0

Data tables

Structured output this recipe can produce.

  • Source files that had resultsSource files that were modified by the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
  • Source files that had search resultsSearch results that were found during the recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
  • Source files that errored on a recipeThe details of all errors produced by a recipe run.org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
  • Recipe performanceStatistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats