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GHSA-hp8f-xmx4-4qrg json

Paths or symlinks ending in a slash escape the sandbox

published 2mo ago modified yesterday also RUSTSEC-2026-0482

cvss
9.0
version 3.1, OSV
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

cap-primitives resolves a path inside a sandboxed directory one component at a time and opens the last component with `O_NOFOLLOW`, so that a symlink there cannot lead out of the directory. When the path ended in `/`, the resolver added the slash back to the last component before opening it. With a trailing slash the operating system no longer treats that component as the last one, so `O_NOFOLLOW` does not apply, the symlink is followed, and the resulting file descriptor was returned without further checks.

A symlink inside the sandbox that points outside it, such as `escape -> ../outside` or a link to `/`, can therefore be opened as `escape/`. If the symlink's own target ends in `/`, the caller's path does not need a trailing slash at all, so removing trailing slashes from untrusted input is not a workaround. The maintainers' advisory reports reads and writes outside the sandbox through `open`, `open_dir`, `read_dir` and `canonicalize`, and directory creation, removal and renames outside it through `create_dir`, `remove_dir` and `rename`.

This resolver is used on Windows and macOS, on FreeBSD when `O_RESOLVE_BENEATH` is not available, and on Linux when `openat2` is not available (kernels before 5.6, or a seccomp policy that rejects it). cap-std and other crates built on cap-primitives are affected through it. Wasmtime's WASI filesystem support was affected as well; that is covered by RUSTSEC-2026-0269.

The fix stops re-adding the trailing slash and is in 3.4.6 and 4.0.3.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io cap-primitives 3.4.6, 4.0.3

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
OSV 3.1 9.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io cap-primitives
>=0.0.0-0, <3.4.6
>=4.0.0, <4.0.3
3.4.6
4.0.3

References

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