Fiber is an Express inspired web framework written in Go. A Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Fiber allows a remote attacker to bypass the static middleware sanitizer and read arbitrary files on the server file system on Windows. This affects Fiber v3 through version 3.0.0. This has been patched in Fiber v3 version 3.1.0.

Affected: Go: github.com/gofiber/fiber/v3

### Summary

**Description** A Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Fiber allows a remote attacker to bypass the static middleware sanitizer and read arbitrary files on the server file system on Windows. This affects Fiber v3 through version 3.0.0. This has been patched in Fiber v3 version 3.1.0. ### Details The vulnerability resides in `middleware/static/static.go` within the `sanitizePath` function. This function attempts to sanitize the requested path by checking for backslashes, decoding the URL, and then cleaning the path.

The vulnerability stems from two combined issues: - The check for backslash characters happens before the URL decoding loop. If an attacker sends a double-encoded backslash, the initial check sees `%255C` and passes. The loop then decodes this into a single backslash. - The function uses `path.Clean` to clean the resulting string. `path.Clean` is designed for slash-separated paths and does not recognize backslashes as directory separators. Consequently, sequences like `..\..\` are treated as valid filenames.

When this sanitized path is later used, the backslashes are interpreted as valid separators, allowing the attacker to traverse up the directory tree. ```go // pkg/static/static.go func sanitizePath(p []byte, filesystem fs.FS) ([]byte, error) { ... // this check happens BEFORE decoding if bytes.IndexByte(p, '\\') >= 0 { ... } // This loop decodes %255C to %5C to \ for strings.IndexByte(s, '%') >= 0 {…