# GO-PATH-001: Path Traversal via HTTP Input

> **Severity:** HIGH | **CWE:** CWE-22 | **OWASP:** A01:2021

- **Language:** Go
- **Category:** Security
- **URL:** https://codepathfinder.dev/registry/golang/security/GO-PATH-001
- **Detection:** `pathfinder scan --ruleset golang/GO-PATH-001 --project .`

## Description

Path traversal occurs when user-controlled input is used in file system operations
without properly restricting the resulting path to an intended directory. Attackers
inject sequences like `../../etc/passwd`, `../../../etc/shadow`, or `%2e%2e%2f` to
read or write files outside the intended base directory.

**Go-specific pitfall — filepath.Join with absolute paths**:
`filepath.Join("/var/uploads", "/etc/passwd")` returns `/etc/passwd` in Go.
This is documented behavior: if an element is an absolute path, all preceding elements
are discarded. A user supplying `/etc/passwd` as a filename completely bypasses the
base directory constraint.

**filepath.Clean() is necessary but NOT sufficient**:
`filepath.Clean("../../../etc/passwd")` returns `../../etc/passwd` — it resolves
redundant separators and dots but does not anchor to any base directory. Clean must
be followed by a `strings.HasPrefix(clean, baseDir)` check with a trailing separator.

**The correct pattern**:
```go
clean := filepath.Join(baseDir, filename)
clean = filepath.Clean(clean)
if !strings.HasPrefix(clean, baseDir+string(filepath.Separator)) {
    // path traversal attempt
}
```
Note the trailing separator — without it, `baseDir = "/uploads"` and
`clean = "/uploads-secret/file.txt"` would pass the prefix check.

**Zip Slip vulnerability**: Archive extraction (zip, tar) is a common path traversal
vector. A malicious archive contains entries with paths like `../../etc/cron.d/backdoor`.
When extracted without path validation, files are written outside the extraction directory.
Go's archive/zip and archive/tar packages provide the raw filename from the archive
without sanitization — developers must validate each entry's path before extraction.

**Null byte injection**: In some contexts, filenames containing null bytes
(`filename\x00.jpg`) may be truncated at the null byte by underlying C library functions.
Go's os package handles null bytes safely (returns an error), but third-party or CGO
code may not.


## Vulnerable Code

```python
# --- file: vulnerable.go ---
// GO-PATH-001 positive test cases — all SHOULD be detected
package main

import (
	"net/http"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"

	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
)

func pathTraversalReadFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	filename := r.FormValue("file")                        // source
	content, _ := os.ReadFile("/var/uploads/" + filename)  // SINK: path traversal
	w.Write(content)
}

func pathTraversalOpen(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	path := r.FormValue("path")          // source
	os.Open(path)                        // SINK
}

func pathTraversalCreate(c *gin.Context) {
	name := c.Param("filename")          // source
	os.Create("/tmp/" + name)            // SINK
}

func pathTraversalJoin(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	dir := r.FormValue("dir")            // source
	fullPath := filepath.Join("/data", dir) // SINK: join with user input
	os.ReadFile(fullPath)
}

# --- file: go.mod ---
module example.com/go-path-001/positive

go 1.25.0

require github.com/gin-gonic/gin v1.12.0

require (
	github.com/bytedance/gopkg v0.1.3 // indirect
	github.com/bytedance/sonic v1.15.0 // indirect
	github.com/bytedance/sonic/loader v0.5.0 // indirect
	github.com/cloudwego/base64x v0.1.6 // indirect
	github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype v1.4.12 // indirect
	github.com/gin-contrib/sse v1.1.0 // indirect
	github.com/go-playground/locales v0.14.1 // indirect
	github.com/go-playground/universal-translator v0.18.1 // indirect
	github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.30.1 // indirect
	github.com/goccy/go-json v0.10.5 // indirect
	github.com/goccy/go-yaml v1.19.2 // indirect
	github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12 // indirect
	github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.3.0 // indirect
	github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.4.0 // indirect
	github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 // indirect
	github.com/modern-go/concurrent v0.0.0-20180306012644-bacd9c7ef1dd // indirect
	github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2 // indirect
	github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 v2.2.4 // indirect
	github.com/quic-go/qpack v0.6.0 // indirect
	github.com/quic-go/quic-go v0.59.0 // indirect
	github.com/twitchyliquid64/golang-asm v0.15.1 // indirect
	github.com/ugorji/go/codec v1.3.1 // indirect
	go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2 v2.5.0 // indirect
	golang.org/x/arch v0.22.0 // indirect
	golang.org/x/crypto v0.48.0 // indirect
	golang.org/x/net v0.51.0 // indirect
	golang.org/x/sys v0.41.0 // indirect
	golang.org/x/text v0.34.0 // indirect
	google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.10 // indirect
)

# --- file: go.sum ---
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github.com/bytedance/sonic/loader v0.5.0 h1:gXH3KVnatgY7loH5/TkeVyXPfESoqSBSBEiDd5VjlgE=
github.com/bytedance/sonic/loader v0.5.0/go.mod h1:AR4NYCk5DdzZizZ5djGqQ92eEhCCcdf5x77udYiSJRo=
github.com/cloudwego/base64x v0.1.6 h1:t11wG9AECkCDk5fMSoxmufanudBtJ+/HemLstXDLI2M=
github.com/cloudwego/base64x v0.1.6/go.mod h1:OFcloc187FXDaYHvrNIjxSe8ncn0OOM8gEHfghB2IPU=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.1 h1:vj9j/u1bqnvCEfJOwUhtlOARqs3+rkHYY13jYWTU97c=
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github.com/go-playground/assert/v2 v2.2.0 h1:JvknZsQTYeFEAhQwI4qEt9cyV5ONwRHC+lYKSsYSR8s=
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github.com/go-playground/validator/v10 v10.30.1 h1:f3zDSN/zOma+w6+1Wswgd9fLkdwy06ntQJp0BBvFG0w=
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github.com/json-iterator/go v1.1.12/go.mod h1:e30LSqwooZae/UwlEbR2852Gd8hjQvJoHmT4TnhNGBo=
github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.3.0 h1:S4CRMLnYUhGeDFDqkGriYKdfoFlDnMtqTiI/sFzhA9Y=
github.com/klauspost/cpuid/v2 v2.3.0/go.mod h1:hqwkgyIinND0mEev00jJYCxPNVRVXFQeu1XKlok6oO0=
github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.4.0 h1:WT9HwE9SGECu3lg4d/dIA+jxlljEa1/ffXKmRjqdmIQ=
github.com/leodido/go-urn v1.4.0/go.mod h1:bvxc+MVxLKB4z00jd1z+Dvzr47oO32F/QSNjSBOlFxI=
github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.20 h1:xfD0iDuEKnDkl03q4limB+vH+GxLEtL/jb4xVJSWWEY=
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github.com/modern-go/reflect2 v1.0.2/go.mod h1:yWuevngMOJpCy52FWWMvUC8ws7m/LJsjYzDa0/r8luk=
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go.uber.org/mock v0.6.0/go.mod h1:KiVJ4BqZJaMj4svdfmHM0AUx4NJYO8ZNpPnZn1Z+BBU=
golang.org/x/arch v0.22.0 h1:c/Zle32i5ttqRXjdLyyHZESLD/bB90DCU1g9l/0YBDI=
golang.org/x/arch v0.22.0/go.mod h1:dNHoOeKiyja7GTvF9NJS1l3Z2yntpQNzgrjh1cU103A=
golang.org/x/crypto v0.48.0 h1:/VRzVqiRSggnhY7gNRxPauEQ5Drw9haKdM0jqfcCFts=
golang.org/x/crypto v0.48.0/go.mod h1:r0kV5h3qnFPlQnBSrULhlsRfryS2pmewsg+XfMgkVos=
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golang.org/x/net v0.51.0/go.mod h1:aamm+2QF5ogm02fjy5Bb7CQ0WMt1/WVM7FtyaTLlA9Y=
golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0/go.mod h1:oPkhp1MJrh7nUepCBck5+mAzfO9JrbApNNgaTdGDITg=
golang.org/x/sys v0.41.0 h1:Ivj+2Cp/ylzLiEU89QhWblYnOE9zerudt9Ftecq2C6k=
golang.org/x/sys v0.41.0/go.mod h1:OgkHotnGiDImocRcuBABYBEXf8A9a87e/uXjp9XT3ks=
golang.org/x/text v0.34.0 h1:oL/Qq0Kdaqxa1KbNeMKwQq0reLCCaFtqu2eNuSeNHbk=
golang.org/x/text v0.34.0/go.mod h1:homfLqTYRFyVYemLBFl5GgL/DWEiH5wcsQ5gSh1yziA=
google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.10 h1:AYd7cD/uASjIL6Q9LiTjz8JLcrh/88q5UObnmY3aOOE=
google.golang.org/protobuf v1.36.10/go.mod h1:HTf+CrKn2C3g5S8VImy6tdcUvCska2kB7j23XfzDpco=
gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 h1:fxVm/GzAzEWqLHuvctI91KS9hhNmmWOoWu0XTYJS7CA=
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=
```

## Secure Code

```python
// SECURE: filepath.Join + Clean + HasPrefix check (with trailing separator)
func serveFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    filename := r.FormValue("file")
    baseDir := "/var/uploads"

    // Join, then Clean to resolve any remaining .. or .
    clean := filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(baseDir, filename))

    // CRITICAL: check with trailing separator to prevent "/uploads-evil" bypass
    if !strings.HasPrefix(clean, baseDir+string(filepath.Separator)) {
        http.Error(w, "invalid path", http.StatusBadRequest)
        return
    }
    http.ServeFile(w, r, clean)
}

// SECURE: zip extraction with path traversal prevention
func extractZip(archive *zip.ReadCloser, destDir string) error {
    destDir = filepath.Clean(destDir) + string(filepath.Separator)
    for _, f := range archive.File {
        // Validate destination path before extraction
        destPath := filepath.Clean(filepath.Join(destDir, f.Name))
        if !strings.HasPrefix(destPath, destDir) {
            return fmt.Errorf("zip slip detected: %s", f.Name)
        }
        if f.FileInfo().IsDir() {
            os.MkdirAll(destPath, f.Mode())
            continue
        }
        os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(destPath), 0755)
        out, err := os.OpenFile(destPath, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_TRUNC, f.Mode())
        if err != nil {
            return err
        }
        rc, _ := f.Open()
        io.Copy(out, rc)
        out.Close()
        rc.Close()
    }
    return nil
}

```

## Detection Rule (Python SDK)

```python
"""GO-PATH-001: Path traversal via HTTP request input reaching file system operations."""

from codepathfinder.go_rule import (
    GoGinContext,
    GoHTTPRequest,
    GoOS,
    GoFilepath,
)
from codepathfinder import flows
from codepathfinder.presets import PropagationPresets
from codepathfinder.go_decorators import go_rule


@go_rule(
    id="GO-PATH-001",
    severity="HIGH",
    cwe="CWE-22",
    owasp="A01:2021",
    tags="go,security,path-traversal,file-system,CWE-22,OWASP-A01",
    message=(
        "User-controlled input flows into file system operations (os.Open, os.Create, "
        "os.ReadFile, filepath.Join). This creates a path traversal vulnerability — "
        "attackers can read or write arbitrary files by injecting '../' sequences. "
        "Use filepath.Clean() and validate the result stays within the intended base directory."
    ),
)
def go_path_traversal():
    """HTTP request input reaches file system operations — path traversal."""
    return flows(
        from_sources=[
            GoGinContext.method(
                "Param", "Query", "PostForm", "GetRawData",
                "ShouldBindJSON", "BindJSON", "GetHeader"
            ),
            GoHTTPRequest.method("FormValue", "PostFormValue"),
            GoHTTPRequest.attr("URL.Path", "URL.RawQuery"),
        ],
        to_sinks=[
            GoOS.method(
                "Open", "OpenFile", "Create", "CreateTemp",
                "ReadFile", "WriteFile", "Remove", "RemoveAll",
                "Mkdir", "MkdirAll", "Stat", "Lstat",
            ),
            GoFilepath.method("Join", "Abs"),
        ],
        propagates_through=PropagationPresets.standard(),
        scope="global",
    )
```

## How to Fix

- Always use filepath.Clean() after filepath.Join() to resolve remaining .. components.
- After Clean, verify the path has the expected base directory prefix WITH a trailing separator.
- Never trust user-supplied filenames from archives — validate each entry path during extraction.
- Use os.OpenFile with appropriate flags; consider os.O_EXCL to prevent overwrite attacks.
- Reject filenames containing null bytes, path separators, or explicit .. components.
- Serve static files through http.FileServer with a restricted http.Dir, not by path construction.

## Security Implications

- **Sensitive File Read:** Attackers read `/etc/passwd`, `/etc/shadow` (Unix), `C:\Windows\System32\config\SAM`
(Windows), application configuration files containing database credentials, TLS
private keys, or cloud credential files (~/.aws/credentials).

- **Application Source Code Disclosure:** Reading `../../app/main.go`, `../../.env`, or `../../config.yaml` exposes
application secrets, database passwords, API keys, and business logic.

- **Malicious File Write (Remote Code Execution):** Write access enables persistence: write to `/etc/cron.d/`, `~/.ssh/authorized_keys`,
or executable paths. In web contexts, writing a server-side script to a web-accessible
directory enables RCE.

- **Zip Slip — Archive Extraction RCE:** A malicious archive entry `../../.ssh/authorized_keys` writes the attacker's SSH
public key to the server's authorized_keys file during archive extraction.
Demonstrated against multiple Go-based archive tools.


## References

- [CWE-22: Path Traversal — MITRE](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html)
- [OWASP Path Traversal attack](https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Path_Traversal)
- [OWASP Testing Guide: Path Traversal (v4.2)](https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/latest/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/05-Authorization_Testing/01-Testing_Directory_Traversal_File_Include)
- [Zip Slip — path traversal in archive extraction](https://github.com/snyk/zip-slip-vulnerability)
- [Go filepath package documentation](https://pkg.go.dev/path/filepath)
- [Go filepath.Join behavior with absolute paths](https://pkg.go.dev/path/filepath#Join)

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