High

Mockoon has a Path Traversal and LFI in the static file serving endpoint

  • Disclosed: 11.03.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Summary

A mock API configuration for static file serving following the same approach presented in the documentation page, where the server filename is generated via templating features from user input is vulnerable to Path Traversal and LFI, allowing an attacker to get any file in the mock server filesystem. The issue may be particularly relevant in cloud hosted server instances

Details

In sendFileWithCallback(code) and sendFile(code) the filePath variable is parsed using TemplateParser

js
let filePath = TemplateParser({
        shouldOmitDataHelper: false,
        // replace backslashes with forward slashes, but not if followed by a dot (to allow helpers with paths containing properties with dots: e.g. {{queryParam 'path.prop\.with\.dots'}})
        content: routeResponse.filePath.replace(/\\(?!\.)/g, '/'),
        environment: this.environment,
        processedDatabuckets: this.processedDatabuckets,
        globalVariables: this.globalVariables,
        request: serverRequest,
        envVarsPrefix: this.options.envVarsPrefix
      });

The path extracted from the request parameters used when composing the final file path is not sanitized and is vulnerable to path traversal exploits (e.g. ../../../../../etc/passwd)

PoC

Test setup

The issue has been tested with mockoon-cli, using the Docker image mockoon/cli:latest

config.json

bash
# Folder setup
mkdir mockoon-test
cd mockoon-test

# put config.json in mockooon-test dir

mkdir static
bash
# Run container
docker run -d --mount type=bind,source=./config.json,target=/data,readonly -v ./static:/static -p 3000:3000 mockoon/cli:latest -d data -p 3000

Payload to reproduce

Browsing directly to http://localhost:3000/static/%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd is going to display the /etc/passwd file in the container filesystem

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @mockoon/cli < 9.2.0 9.2.0
npm package @mockoon/commons-server < 9.2.0 9.2.0

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22, CWE-73
Platform
npm
Package
@mockoon/cli, @mockoon/commons-server
Disclosed
11.03.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-w7f9-wqc4-3wxr - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: @mockoon/cli

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

Total entries
3
First → latest
03.2025 09.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 2
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2025: 1
  2. 2026: 2
  1. Mockoon has a Path Traversal and LFI in the static file serving endpoint this entry
    High · 7.5 CVE-2025-59049 < 9.2.0 9.2.0

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