🛡️ CVE-2021-45712 — rust-embed

RustEmbed generated get method allows for directory traversal when reading files from disk

When running in debug mode and the debug-embed (off by default) feature is

not enabled, the generated get method does not check that the input path is

a child of the folder given.

This allows attackers to read arbitrary files in the file system if they have

control over the filename given. The following code will print the contents of

your /etc/passwd if adjusted with a correct number of ../s depending on

where it is run from.

```rust

#[derive(rust_embed::RustEmbed)]

#[folder = "src/"]

pub struct Asset;

fn main() {

let d = Asset::get("../../../etc/passwd").unwrap().data;

println!("{}", String::from_utf8_lossy(&d));

}

```

The flaw was corrected by canonicalizing the input filename and ensuring that

it starts with the canonicalized folder path.