# CVE-2023-34460: Tauri vulnerable to Regression on Filesystem Scope Checks for Dotfiles

- Also known as: GHSA-WMFF-GRCW-JCFM
- Severity: CVSS 4.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.1
- Published: 2023-06-23 · Updated: 2024-11-07

## Affected

- tauri-apps tauri: 1.4.0
- tauri (crates.io): from 1.4.0, fixed in 1.4.1

## Description

Tauri is a framework for building binaries for all major desktop platforms. The 1.4.0 release includes a regression on the Filesystem scope check for dotfiles on Unix. Previously dotfiles were not implicitly allowed by the glob wildcard scopes (eg. `$HOME/*`), but a regression was introduced when a configuration option for this behavior was implemented. Only Tauri applications using wildcard scopes in the `fs` endpoint are affected. The regression has been patched on version 1.4.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on tauri-apps tauri, tauri, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/security/advisories/GHSA-wmff-grcw-jcfm
- https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/6969#discussion_r1232018347
- https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/pull/7227
- https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/commit/066c09a6ea06f42f550d090715e06beb65cd5564

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