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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughFileServer, FTP, and TFTP now support configurable symbolic-link following. Each service validates requested paths against its served root. Constructors, environment configuration, type stubs, documentation, changelog entries, and security tests were updated. ChangesShared Path Containment
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Existing FileServer callers can silently change HTTP/2 behavior, while FTP may rename an unintended source or access files outside the served root during a link-swap race. These issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens Netius’s file-serving surfaces (FTP, TFTP, and the HTTP FileServer) against escaping the configured served root via sibling paths and symlinks, introducing an opt-in follow_links switch to preserve legacy “publish via symlink” layouts when explicitly enabled.
Changes:
- Add
follow_links(defaultFalse) to FTP/TFTP/FileServer, and when disabled, enforce containment usingrealpath()-based checks to prevent symlink-based root escapes. - Fix the HTTP file server’s sibling-root containment check to use a proper path-boundary test (matching the FTP/TFTP approach).
- Extend/adjust tests and typings (
.pyi) and raise CI coverage floor to 80%.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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| src/netius/servers/tftp.py | Adds follow_links option; enforces realpath-based containment; fixes TFTP invalid-op error formatting. |
| src/netius/servers/ftp.py | Adds follow_links option; enforces realpath-based containment in _get_path; propagates flag into connections. |
| src/netius/extra/file.py | Adds follow_links option; upgrades containment check to boundary + optional realpath. |
| src/netius/servers/tftp.pyi | Updates type stubs for follow_links and constructor signature. |
| src/netius/servers/ftp.pyi | Updates type stubs for follow_links and constructor signatures. |
| src/netius/extra/file.pyi | Updates type stub for follow_links and constructor signature. |
| src/netius/test/servers/tftp.py | Adds/extends tests for symlink escape, sibling escape, and follow_links behavior. |
| src/netius/test/servers/ftp.py | Adds/extends tests for symlink escape, sibling escape, and follow_links behavior. |
| src/netius/test/extra/file.py | Extends tests for HTTP sibling escape and symlink escape; validates follow_links. |
| CHANGELOG.md | Documents the new follow_links capability and the default behavioral change. |
| .github/workflows/main.yml | Raises coverage report fail-under threshold from 79 to 80. |
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- A link under the root pointing outside it was followed and served, which a service on a reserved port turns into a read by a privileged process - The HTTP file server also took a sibling whose name started like the root - A flag keeps the old behaviour for a root that publishes through links
- The service keeps the file that it opened, which a system that locks an open one will not let go of while the directory is taken away
- A client that walks up from the root sends a command that is ordinary, so the refusal of it belongs in the protocol rather than in a close - The option that follows a link is now documented with the others - A case that skips no longer leaves the root it made behind
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- The path of a file that is read or stored was only resolved once the data connection flushed, which may run after it is accepted, so a refusal there was raised past the handler with the transfer already announced - The path is now resolved and kept at the command itself, where a refusal is answered as a failed command before anything is left over
- The containment only checked the directory that was asked for, while the index file taken from it is what is opened, so a link there that leaves the root was still followed and served - The check is now a helper of its own, run for the index file as well - The cases of a link that is served assert the file rather than no failure
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503-505: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winSecurity Misconfiguration (CWE-16)
Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult
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- Line 91: Update FileServer.__init__ in src/netius/extra/file.py (line 91) to
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Preserve the positional constructor contract.
FileServer.__init__ captures the first positional value after cache as follow_links, instead of forwarding it to HTTP2Server.__init__ as legacy. This can change existing positional configurations. Handle follow_links as a keyword without shifting *args in src/netius/extra/file.py and src/netius/extra/file.pyi.
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base_path="",
style_urls=[],
index_files=[],
path_regex=[],
list_dirs=True,
list_engine="base",
cors=False,
cache=0,
follow_links=False,
*args,
**kwargs
):
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self.base_path = base_path
self.style_urls = style_urls
self.index_files = index_files
self.path_regex = path_regex
self.list_dirs = list_dirs
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self.cors = cors
self.cache = cache
self.follow_links = follow_links
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Path Traversal (CWE-59)
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult
Make containment and file opening atomic.
_is_sub(path) resolves the path before on_normal_file calls getmtime, getsize, and open. A local process can replace a path component between these operations and redirect the read outside base_path. Use secure descriptor-based traversal for normal files and index files.
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corresponding index-file handling to make base-path containment validation and
file opening atomic, replacing the separate _is_sub, getmtime, getsize, and open
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- The containment resolved both the root and the path from the top of the file system on every request, while only a link below the root can lead out of it and what sits above resolves the same for both of them - The components below the root are now checked with a stat each and the resolution only happens when one of them is a link
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When a session has already accepted RNFR, an RNTO whose target fails containment reaches this catch and keeps the control connection alive, but on_rnto() performs target validation before its try/finally, so the prior source_path is never cleared. A subsequent RNTO can therefore rename that stale source without a new successful RNFR; the same occurs when a second, rejected RNFR leaves the first source selected. Clear the rename state when rejecting either rename command, or move validation inside cleanup that always runs.
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When LIST_DIRS is enabled and an in-root directory contains a symlink to an outside file, this validates only the requested directory. FileServer._items_normalize() then follows every entry through exists, isdir, getmtime, and getsize (lines 138–150), exposing the outside target's type, timestamp, and size even though follow_links=False; FTPConnection._list() has the same issue through os.stat() at lines 463–478. Use lstat or apply containment to each entry before collecting listing metadata.
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271-272: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winClear rename state when a path is rejected.
When
_get_pathraises inon_rnfroron_rnto, the new catch keeps the connection open before the handlers clearsource_path. A later validRNTOcan then rename a source path left by an earlier command. Resetsource_pathandtarget_pathwhen catching this error.Suggested fix
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404-404: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPath Traversal (CWE-367): Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
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Bind containment validation to the file open.
At lines 404 and 409, validation stores only a pathname.
flush_retrandflush_storopen that pathname later. A local writer can replace an in-root entry with a link during this gap, which can expose or overwrite a file outside the served root. Use secure-open handling that validates the opened file object. Add a regression test for link replacement between validation and open.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Preserve the symbolic-link skip.
If _link() calls skipTest(), base does not exist. Line 315 then raises FileNotFoundError from the finally block and changes the skipped test into an error. Remove the link only when it exists.
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In `@src/netius/test/common/util.py` at line 315, Update the cleanup in _link() so
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Skip path cleanup raises instead
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test_is_sub_path_base_link always os.removes base in finally, but base is only created by _link. When that helper skips because symlinks are unavailable, the remove fails and the skip is reported as an error instead.
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Closes #126.
Two things, both about a path leaving the root a service was told to serve.
A link under the root was followed out of it
All three file serving modules resolved lexically, with
abspathandnormpath, so a link placed inside the root whose target sits elsewhere was followed and the contents served. Confirmed against the branch of #125, with the containment fixes of that pull request already in place:The privilege runs the wrong way, which is what makes it worth acting on. Both services bind a reserved port by default, 21 for the FTP one and 69 for the TFTP one, so they are commonly started as root. An unprivileged user of the machine, or another service that has been taken over, needs only write access to one directory inside the root to have a process running as root read a file it could never open itself.
It stays below the traversals #125 fixed, which a remote peer reached with no account at all, because none of these services can create a link: the command set of the FTP one is fixed at
COMMANDSand carries nothing of the sort,STORopens a plain file through the contained path, and the write request of the TFTP one raisesnetius.NotImplementedbefore it reaches a name. So this is a local escalation rather than something reachable from outside on its own.The HTTP file server still took a sibling of the root
extra/file.pywas left out of #125 to keep that one scoped, so it still compared with a plain prefix and accepted/srv/ftp-backup/secret.txtfor a root of/srv/ftp. It now takes the same boundary check the other two received.What changed
Each of the three services gains a
follow_linksflag, defaulting toFalse, read fromFOLLOW_LINKSinon_servelike every other option beside it. When it is not set, both the root and the candidate are resolved before the containment is checked:Both sides are resolved rather than only the candidate, or every path breaks wherever the root is itself reached through a link, which is the case under macOS where the temporary directory resolves from
/varto/private/var.The flag rather than an unconditional change, because publishing content through a link inside the root is an ordinary way to lay a file service out, and canonicalising would otherwise silently stop serving it. This is how the established servers treat it,
--securefortftpd-hpaandFollowSymLinksfor Apache among them. The default is the safe one, so an existing deployment that relies on links has to say so, and the changelog says as much.The resolved value is kept in a separate name and only used for the check, so what is opened, listed and reported is unchanged.
Verification
The four cases that assert refusal fail against the base of this branch and pass here. Two more assert that a link whose target stays under the root is still served, and one that the flag brings the old behaviour back, so the guard cannot pass by refusing everything.
Creating a link is reserved to a privileged user under Windows, so each case goes through a helper that skips when it is not possible, in the shape the suite already uses for an unavailable dependency.
extra/file.pyservers/ftp.pyservers/tftp.pyThe three together stand at 91.9%, and every line added by this branch is covered, the misses being the
__main__blocks and code that predates it. The package goes from 81.4% to 81.6%.Checked on Python 3.14 (2020 passed, coverage gate and
mypy.stubtestclean), and on 3.5 and 2.7 throughpython setup.py testas the job runs it, plusblack --checkacross 366 files.From the review
A refused path no longer drops the FTP control connection.
CWD ..from the root is what an ordinary client sends, and #125 had made it raise past the command handlers so the connection was closed instead of answered. The refusal is now caught at the dispatch inon_lineand reported as a failed command, so the session carries on:It sits at the dispatch rather than in the eight handlers that reach a path, since the meaning is the same for all of them. A single
500is used rather than a550for the directory commands andnot_okfor the rest; the distinction is real in the protocol but reproducing it needs either eight handlers or a command to reply mapping, which reads as more machinery than the one refusal warrants.FOLLOW_LINKSis documented in the File Serving table ofdoc/configuration.md, besideBASE_PATHandLIST_DIRS.Two limitations were raised and are not addressed here, both accurately. The check and the open are separate, so a principal who can already write inside the root may swap a link between them; closing that needs
O_NOFOLLOWor directory descriptors, neither of which spans Windows and Python 2.7. Andntpath.realpathisabspathon Python 2.7, so the guard is inert on that one combination, though it is no worse than before it. The guard is effective on POSIX and on Windows from Python 3.8 onwards.Note
High Risk
Security-sensitive changes to how served paths are validated across HTTP/FTP/TFTP; incorrect containment could expose files outside the configured root, though behavior is covered by new tests and defaults to stricter checks.
Overview
Closes a path-escape class of issues for HTTP, FTP, and TFTP file serving by replacing naive prefix checks with shared containment logic.
New
is_sub_pathhelper treats a path as inside the served root only when it is the root or a true child (path separator boundary), not a sibling whose name merely shares a prefix. By default it resolves symlinks and Windows reparse points under the root and rejects targets outside the root; optionalfollow_links=Truekeeps the old “serve by link name” behavior.All three file services gain
follow_links(defaultFalse, envFOLLOW_LINKS). HTTPFileServerroutes requests and index files through_is_sub; FTP/TFTP path resolution uses the same helper. FTP resolvesRETR/STORpaths at command time and mapsSecurityErrorto500 not okinstead of dropping the control connection (e.g.CWD ..at root).Docs and changelog document
FOLLOW_LINKS; tests cover siblings, outbound/inbound symlinks, and opt-in link following.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit b3692cf. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.