GHSA-74m3-9qvm-rp9hHighCVSS 8.7

zrok: WebDAV drive backend follows symlinks outside DriveRoot, enabling host filesystem read/write

Published
April 25, 2026
Last Modified
May 12, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Summary The zrok WebDAV drive backend (davServer.Dir) restricts path traversal through lexical normalization but does not prevent symlink following. When a symbolic link inside the shared DriveRoot points to a location outside that root, remote WebDAV consumers can read files and—on shares without OS-level permission restrictions—write or overwrite files anywhere on the host filesystem accessible to the zrok process.

  • Attack Vector: Network — exploitation is performed entirely over the WebDAV endpoint; the attacker issues HTTP requests to the public zrok share URL.
  • Attack Complexity: High — a precondition outside the attacker's direct control must hold: a symlink pointing outside DriveRoot must already exist within it (created locally, not via WebDAV).
  • Privileges Required: None — zrok share public --backend-mode drive exposes the WebDAV endpoint with no authentication by default.
  • User Interaction: None — once the symlink precondition is met, exploitation requires no user interaction.
  • Scope: Changed — the vulnerability allows an attacker to escape the WebDAV root (the security boundary) and access the broader host filesystem.
  • Confidentiality Impact: High — arbitrary files readable by the zrok process can be retrieved.
  • Integrity Impact: High — the WebDAV PUT handler opens files with O_RDWR|O_CREATE|O_TRUNC, meaning symlink targets outside DriveRoot can be overwritten (e.g. ~/.ssh/authorized_keys).
  • Availability Impact: None — no direct availability impact.

Affected Components

  • drives/davServer/file.go — Dir.OpenFile (line 140), Dir.Stat (line 176), Dir.Mkdir (line 133), Dir.RemoveAll (line 151)
  • endpoints/drive/backend.go — NewBackend (line 51–52)

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/github.com/openziti/zrok:<= 1.1.11
  • go/github.com/openziti/zrok/v2:< 2.0.2

🔗 References (5)