# CVE-2020-26279: Path traversal

- Also known as: GO-2022-0779, GHSA-27PV-Q55R-222G
- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.8.0-rc1, 0.8.0
- Published: 2021-03-24 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- ipfs go-ipfs: fixed in 0.8.0-rc1
- github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs (Go): fixed in 0.8.0

## Description

go-ipfs is an open-source golang implementation of IPFS which is a global, versioned, peer-to-peer filesystem. In go-ipfs before version 0.8.0-rc1, it is possible for path traversal to occur with DAGs containing relative paths during retrieval. This can cause files to be overwritten, or written to incorrect output directories. The issue can only occur when a get is done on an affected DAG. This is fixed in version 0.8.0-rc1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ipfs go-ipfs, github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs, upgrade to a fixed version (0.8.0-rc1, 0.8.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/security/advisories/GHSA-27pv-q55r-222g
- https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/commit/b7ddba7fe47dee5b1760b8ffe897908417e577b2
- https://github.com/whyrusleeping/tar-utils/commit/20a61371de5b51380bbdb0c7935b30b0625ac227

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