CVE-2023-40274 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in zola 0.13.0 through 0.17.2. The custom implementation of a web server available via the \zola serve\ command allows directory traversal. The handle_request function used by the server to process HTTP requests does not account for sequences of special path control characters (../) in the URL when serving a file which allows one to escape the webroot of the server and read arbitrary files from the filesystem.

Reference

https://github.com/getzola/zola/issues/2257 https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/2258