[GHSA-cv3v-7846-6pxm] Unauthorized File Access in node-git-server#8016
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The advisory states "All versions before 0.6.1" without specifying
a start version. Code review shows:
Version 0.1.0 does NOT contain the vulnerable code:
https://github.com/gabrielcsapo/node-git-server/tree/0.1.0
The lib/ directory in 0.1.0 only contains: basicAuth.js, handle.js,
info.js, no_cache.js, onexit.js, service.js. There is no git.js and
the Git class with the dirMap logic does not exist yet.
Version 0.2.0 DOES contain the vulnerable code:
https://github.com/gabrielcsapo/node-git-server/blob/0.2.0/lib/git.js
The constructor in 0.2.0 uses:
return path.resolve(repoDir, dir);
path.resolve() prioritizes the last absolute path argument, so if
an attacker passes a repository name starting with "/", the repoDir
is completely overridden:
path.resolve("/repos", "/etc") // returns /etc
Therefore the affected version range should start from 0.2.0,
not from "all versions".