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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix path traversal in auth_files handlers#131

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πŸ›‘οΈ Sentinel: [HIGH] Fix path traversal in auth_files handlers#131
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🚨 Severity: HIGH
πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Path Traversal via OS-specific path separators. UploadAuthFile and DeleteAuthFile checked for invalid file paths using os.PathSeparator. On Windows systems, this translates only to \, allowing an attacker to bypass validation using / (e.g., ../../sensitive.json) to write or delete unauthorized files.
🎯 Impact: An attacker could potentially upload an auth file to a directory outside of cfg.AuthDir or delete an arbitrary system file the server had write permissions for, leading to Denial of Service (DoS) or unauthorized persistence.
πŸ”§ Fix: Replaced the strings.Contains(name, string(os.PathSeparator)) with the cross-platform Sentinel standard strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\"). This explicitly validates and blocks both standard / and Windows \ separators on all environments.
βœ… Verification: Ran the test suite go test ./... -short and specific path traversal integration tests in TestDownloadAuthFile_PathTraversal inside internal/api/handlers/management (which passed). Checked the resulting Go code and it matches exactly the recommended prevention patterns.


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In `internal/api/handlers/management/auth_files.go`, `UploadAuthFile` and `DeleteAuthFile` previously checked for path traversals using `os.PathSeparator`. This behaves as `\` on Windows, leaving `../` payloads unchecked on Windows environments.

Updated both occurrences to use `strings.ContainsAny(name, "/\\")` according to the Sentinel Security Pattern to consistently protect against cross-platform directory traversal on all underlying environments.

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-auth-file-path-traversal-9010333582127816163 branch April 8, 2026 14:36
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