AIKIDO-2026-39279
dulwich is vulnerable to Path Traversal
53
Medium Risk
This Affects:
dulwichTL;DR
dulwich resolves loose ref names into filesystem paths in DiskRefsContainer.refpath using os.path.join, but lookups like read_loose_ref and the git-upload-archive argument skip the ref-name validation applied on write paths. An untrusted name such as ../../secret therefore resolves outside the ref store and its first line is returned as the ref value, letting a client read files outside the repository ref store. The fix validates ref names with _check_refname before resolving them to a path and rejects traversing names.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and you run a git server that resolves untrusted client-supplied ref names.
Background info
dulwich is vulnerable to Path Traversal in versions 0.9.1 - 1.2.6.
How to fix this
Upgrade the dulwich library to the patch version.
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