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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Path Traversal in File Upload/Delete Handlers#128

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [CRITICAL] Fix Path Traversal in File Upload/Delete Handlers#128
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🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: UploadAuthFile and DeleteAuthFile checked for path traversal in the user-supplied name query parameter using only os.PathSeparator. On a Linux server, os.PathSeparator is /, meaning Windows-style path traversal payloads (e.g., ..\..\secrets.json) could bypass the validation. When combined with the subsequent filepath.Join(), this could allow attackers to write or delete files outside the intended AuthDir.
🎯 Impact: Remote, unauthenticated attackers (if management endpoints are exposed) could upload arbitrary files to the server's filesystem, or delete critical configuration/auth files, leading to remote code execution (RCE) or denial of service (DoS).
πŸ”§ Fix: Updated the validation to explicitly check for both forward and backward slashes using strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\"). Moved the check to the very top of the handlers so malicious requests fail immediately (Fast Fail), even before backend authManager checks.
βœ… Verification: Unit tests for path traversal have been successfully added to auth_files_security_test.go and verified running go test ./internal/api/handlers/management -run Test.*AuthFile_PathTraversal.


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Replaces `strings.Contains(name, string(os.PathSeparator))` with
`strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\")` in `UploadAuthFile` and
`DeleteAuthFile` to ensure comprehensive, cross-platform path
traversal protection, particularly on Unix systems where `\`
is not interpreted as a directory separator.

Co-authored-by: rschumann <360788+rschumann@users.noreply.github.com>
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@rschumann rschumann closed this Apr 8, 2026
@rschumann rschumann deleted the sentinel/fix-path-traversal-6700445860179158313 branch April 8, 2026 14:35
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