CVE-2022-46171: Tauri vulnerable to path traversal

Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2022-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Tauri is a framework for building binaries for all major desktop platforms. The filesystem glob pattern wildcards `*`, `?`, and `[...]` match file path literals and leading dots by default, which unintentionally exposes sub folder content of allowed paths. Scopes without the wildcards are not affected. As `**` allows for sub directories the behavior there is also as expected. The issue has been patched in the latest release and was backported into the currently supported 1.x branches. There are no known workarounds at the time of publication.

Affected products

tauri-apps tauri: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.8; from 1.1.0 before 1.1.3; from 1.2.0 before 1.2.3; 2.0.0-alpha0, 2.0.0-alpha1 — fixed in 1.0.8, 1.1.3, 1.2.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: tauri-apps tauri 1.0.8, 1.1.3, 1.2.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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