Medium
Directory Traversal
Type: advisorySources: OSV
The package github.com/valyala/fasthttp before 1.34.0 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the ServeFile function, due to improper sanitization. It is possible to be exploited by using a backslash %5c character in the path. **Note:** This security issue impacts Windows users only.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-21221
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The package github.com/valyala/fasthttp before 1.34.0 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via the ServeFile function, due to improper sanitization. It is possible to be exploited by using a backslash %5c character in the path. **Note:** This security issue impacts Windows users only.
osv:CVE-2022-21221
Complete source record
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