Medium

S3Proxy allows insecure path traversal in filesystem and filesystem-nio2 storage backends

  • Disclosed: 03.02.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

Impact

Users of the filesystem and filesystem-nio2 storage backends could unintentionally expose local files to authenticated clients.

Patches

Upgrade to S3Proxy 2.6.0 which includes apache/jclouds@b0819e0ef5e08c792a4d1724b938714ce9503aa3 and 86b6ee4749aa163a78e7898efc063617ed171980.

Workarounds

None

References

Privately reported by XBOW Team @xbow-security.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.gaul:s3proxy < 2.6.0 2.6.0

References

CVSS score -
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.gaul:s3proxy
Disclosed
03.02.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-2ccp-vqmv-4r4x - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.gaul:s3proxy

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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