pallets/werkzeug · Security
Werkzeug safe_join() allows Windows special device names
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-29vq-49wr-vm6x
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-27199
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Werkzeug's safe_join function allows Windows device names as filenames if when preceded by other path segments.
This was previously reported as https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/security/advisories/GHSA-hgf8-39gv-g3f2, but the added filtering failed to account for the fact that safe_join accepts paths with multiple segments, such as example/NUL.
send_from_directory uses safe_join to safely serve files at user-specified paths under a directory. If the application is running on Windows, and the requested path ends with a special device name, the file will be opened successfully, but reading will hang indefinitely.
CWEs
- CWE-67 · Improper Handling of Windows Device Names
References
- https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/security/advisories/GHSA-29vq-49wr-vm6x ↗
- https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/commit/f407712fdc60a09c2b3f4fe7db557703e5d9338d ↗
- https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/releases/tag/3.1.6 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27199 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-29vq-49wr-vm6x ↗