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TI-2026-47479 Aliases CVE-2026-66907GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj

Path traversal in Apache Camel

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-23Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · None · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-23 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Relative path traversal vulnerability in Apache Camel Google Storage component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.14.9, from 4.15.0 before 4.18.4, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.0. The camel-google-storage consumer downloads Google Cloud Storage objects to the local filesystem when the downloadFileName option is set. That option is documented as a folder or a filename, and when its value contains no expression token the consumer builds the local destination by appending the object name to it: evaluateFileExpression sets the Exchange file-name header to the remote object name and evaluates downloadFileName + "/${file:name}". The ${file:name} token returns the file-name header verbatim, unlike ${file:onlyname}, which applies FileUtil.stripPath to it. The resulting string was passed directly to new File(result) and blob.downloadTo(file.toPath()) with no lexical normalization and no check that the destination stayed inside the configured directory. The object name is not route-controlled data: the consumer lists the bucket, iterates every returned blob and creates one exchange per object from blob.getBlobId().getName() verbatim, and the filter option that could restrict those names is not applied at all unless it has been explicitly set. Google Cloud Storage object names are opaque UTF-8 keys that the service stores and lists exactly as written, with no server-side canonicalization, and a forward slash is only a display convention for pseudo-directories, so a key containing parent-directory segments survives round-tripping intact. An object name containing such segments therefore resolved to a location outside the configured downloadFileName directory, letting anyone able to influence the names present in the consumed bucket cause Camel to create or overwrite a file at a location of their choosing, with the privileges of the Camel process. Depending on what the process can write to, overwriting a file outside the download directory can escalate beyond the loss of integrity of that file. The downloadFileName option is an ordinary consumer parameter and carries no security marker, so nothing signalled to users that its value was not being enforced as a containment boundary. The defect is consumer-only; the producer has no download-to-file sink. Camel's other file-download consumers - camel-file, camel-ftp, camel-smb, camel-mina-sftp, camel-azure-files and the Azure Storage download paths - already constrained their local downloads to the configured directory using a path-segment boundary check; camel-google-storage was the remaining object-store download sink not covered by that work. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.22.0, which fixes the issue. If users are on the 4.14.x LTS releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.14.9. If users are on the 4.18.x releases stream, then they are suggested to upgrade to 4.18.4. For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, set the filter option to a regular expression that accepts only simple single-segment object names, so that any name carrying a path separator or a parent-directory segment is excluded before an exchange is created; note that no filtering whatsoever is applied when the option is left unset, and that the expression is matched against the whole object name. Alternatively, give downloadFileName an explicit expression that does not carry the remote path through, for example one built on ${file:onlyname} rather than the implicit ${file:name}, keeping in mind that a downloadFileName containing an expression is treated as route-author-controlled and is not covered by the containment check added in the fix. As defence in depth, treat the object names in any externally writable bucket as untrusted input and do not derive local filesystem paths from them.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00827 57th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Apache Camel (Apache Software Foundation): 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven): 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ApacheApache Camel4.0.0 to before 4.14.9; 4.15.0 to before 4.18.4; 4.19.0 to before 4.22.04.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0Patch availableCNA
—org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven)4.0.0 to before 4.14.94.14.9Patch availableGHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj
—org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven)4.15.0 to before 4.18.44.18.4Patch availableGHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj
—org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven)4.19.0 to before 4.22.04.22.0Patch availableGHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj
  • Apache Camel VendorApache Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.14.9; 4.15.0 to before 4.18.4; 4.19.0 to before 4.22.0 Fixed in 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0 Patch available CNA
  • org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Vendor— Affected 4.0.0 to before 4.14.9 Fixed in 4.14.9 Patch available GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj
  • org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Vendor— Affected 4.15.0 to before 4.18.4 Fixed in 4.18.4 Patch available GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj
  • org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Vendor— Affected 4.19.0 to before 4.22.0 Fixed in 4.22.0 Patch available GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:apache:camel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*4.0.0 to before 4.14.9; 4.15.0 to before 4.18.4; 4.19.0 to before 4.22.0VulnerableApache
  • cpe:2.3:a:apache:camel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 4.0.0 to before 4.14.9; 4.15.0 to before 4.18.4; 4.19.0 to before 4.22.0 Vulnerable ·Apache

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Apache Camel (Apache Software Foundation) Fixed in 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0
  • Fix · GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Fixed in 4.14.9 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Fixed in 4.18.4 Advisory →
  • Fix · GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj org.apache.camel:camel-google-storage (Maven) Fixed in 4.22.0 Advisory →

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    Apache Camel 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0

    6 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 4 MEDIUM, 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-54491 Improper input validation in Apache CamelPriority MEDIUM 50
    • TI-2026-49962 Apache Camel: Camel-Atmosphere-Websocket: WebSocket dispatch header injectionPriority MEDIUM 50
    • TI-2026-47478 Path traversal in Apache CamelPriority MEDIUM 48

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-66907
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f78g-9385-qxqj

References

  • TI-2026-76322 Unsafe deserialization in Apache Camel camel-hazelcast CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2026-18973 Apache Camel: Camel-Keycloak: Cross-Realm Token Acceptance Bypass in KeycloakSecurityPolicy CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-76339 Path traversal in Apache Camel azure-files component CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2026-76330 Path traversal in Apache Camel FTP consumer escapes polled directory CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
  • TI-2025-20435 Apache Camel: Camel Message Header Injection via Improper Filtering CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.6
  • TI-2026-34899 Apache Camel: Camel-CXF Message Header Injection via Missing Inbound Filtering CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
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