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filepath-securejoin
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cyphar / filepath-securejoin

filepath-securejoin

Proposed filepath.SecureJoin implementation

3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
115GitHub stars
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What it is

Proposed filepath.SecureJoin implementation

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:30:57 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-05-28 22:13:13 UTC to 2026-05-25 16:55:02 UTC.

0122019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> The new syscall implementation would still need a fallback impl. for older kernels after all. Yup, this is why I'm planning on getting a sane API available in <https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin> which projects can use so that the correct thing is done with both old and new kernels. Right now it has a (slighly) improved version of the code Docker has, but I'm rewriting it. It should be noted that there are lots of examples of interfaces which are incredibly hard to make safe without openat2 -- such as O_CREAT.
In Docker is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack
The only currently known and exploitable API is with `docker cp`, but FollowSymlinkInScope is used all over the place. Unfortunately, fixing FollowSymlinkInScope requires redesigning the API and then redesigning all the callers so they stop passing around path strings blindly and instead pass around handles (which are O_PATH fds). But, as I mentioned in TFA, the plan is to rework https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin to have a sane API that detects attacks on older kernels while using the new kernel bits (once merged).
In Docker is vulnerable to a symlink-race attack

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