GHSA-grm4-wm43-9jh5
Contao: Possible path traversal in job download URIs
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## Summary
An authenticated backend user who can access one job can request an attachment identifier containing `../` segments and make the job attachment download endpoint read a file from another job directory inside `var/job-attachments`.
The controller authorizes only the `jobUuid` route parameter. The later attachment lookup joins that authorized job UUID with the attacker-controlled `identifier`, then passes the combined path to the virtual filesystem. `VirtualFilesystem::resolve()` canonicalizes the whole path and only rejects paths that escape the filesystem mount, so `authorized-job/../victim-job/debug_log.csv` becomes `victim-job/debug_log.csv`.
This is a cross-job authorization bypass for known job attachment paths. It is not a practical brute-force against unknown jobs because job directories are UUID v4 values.
## Root Cause
`JobsController::downloadJobAttachment()` checks access to the route `jobUuid` before loading the attachment:
```php $job = $this->jobs->getByUuid($jobUuid);
if (!$job || !$this->jobs->hasAccess($job)) { throw $this->createNotFoundException(); }
$attachment = $this->jobs->getAttachment($jobUuid, $identifier); ```
`Jobs::getAttachment()` then resolves a path built from the authorized job UUID and the attacker-controlled identifier:
```php $fileItem = $this->jobAttachmentsStorage->get($this->getAttachmentIdentifier($job, $identifier)); ```
```php return $job->getUuid().'/'.$identifier; ```
`VirtualFilesystem::resolve()` canonicalizes the combined path. It rejects absolute paths and paths that start with `..`, but it does not preserve the authorized job directory as a boundary:
```php $path = Path::canonicalize($location);
if (str_starts_with($path, '..')) { throw new \OutOfBoundsException(...); }
return Path::join($this->prefix, $path); ```
Therefore:
```text <authorized-job>/../<victim-job>/debug_log.csv ```
canonicalizes to:
```text <victim-job>/debug_log.csv ```
which remains inside the `job-attachments` filesystem mount and is accepted.
## Recommended Fix
Treat the attachment identifier as a filename, not a path:
- Reject `/`, `\`, NUL, and dot-segment components in `identifier`. - Add a route requirement that prevents slashes in `{identifier}` if nested attachment paths are not intended. - After resolving, assert the canonical relative path starts with `<authorized-job-uuid>/` before returning a `FilesystemItem`. - Apply the same identifier validation in `Jobs::addAttachment()` so future producers/extensions cannot write outside the owning job directory.
### Impact A low-privileged backend user can read another job's attachment if they know or obtain the target job UUID and attachment filename. Built-in crawler jobs attach CSV logs such as `debug_log.csv`, `broken-link-checker_log.csv`, and `search-index_log.csv`, which can contain crawled URLs, referring URLs, tags, and error messages.
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Affected packages
5.7.0 Fixed in: 5.7.7 composer require contao/contao:^5.7.7 5.7.0 Fixed in: 5.7.7 composer require contao/core-bundle:^5.7.7 References
- https://github.com/contao/contao/security/advisories/GHSA-grm4-wm43-9jh5 [WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55825 [ADVISORY]
- https://contao.org/en/security-advisories/path-traversal-in-the-jobs-module [WEB]
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/contao/CVE-2026-55825.yaml [WEB]
- https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/contao/core-bundle/CVE-2026-55825.yaml [WEB]
- https://github.com/contao/contao [PACKAGE]