Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Camel (org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob) 4.0.0 before 4.14.9
- Apache Camel (org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob) 4.15.0 before 4.18.4
- Apache Camel (org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob) 4.19.0 before 4.22.0

Description:

Relative path traversal vulnerability in Apache Camel Azure Storage Blob 
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-azure-storage-blob component can download an Azure Storage blob to 
the local filesystem through its downloadBlobToFile operation, writing into the 
directory named by the fileDir endpoint option, which is documented as usable 
from both the producer and the consumer. BlobOperations.downloadBlobToFile 
built the local target by joining fileDir with the remote blob name exactly as 
the Azure SDK reported it (new File(fileDir, client.getBlobName())) and passed 
the result straight to the SDK download call, with no lexical normalization and 
no check that the resolved location stayed inside fileDir. The blob name is not 
route-controlled data: the consumer enumerates the container in 
BlobConsumer.createBatchExchangesFromContainer, which lists blobs and creates 
one exchange per entry from BlobItem.getName() verbatim, applying no name 
filtering by default. A blob name containing parent-directory segments 
therefore resolved to a location outside the configured fileDir, letting anyone 
able to influence the names present in the consumed container 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. Azure Storage blob containers use a flat namespace in which the 
blob name is an opaque key, so a name carrying such segments is stored and 
listed as given. The fileDir option is an ordinary common-group configuration 
parameter and carries no security marker, so nothing signalled to users that 
its value was not being enforced as a containment boundary. Camel's other 
file-download consumers - camel-file, camel-ftp, camel-smb, camel-mina-sftp and 
camel-azure-files - already constrained their local downloads to the configured 
directory using a path-segment boundary check; the camel-azure-storage-blob 
download path was 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, 
constrain the names the consumer will act on using the regex endpoint option, 
which is applied to each listed blob name as a full-string match, so that only 
simple single-segment names are accepted and any name carrying a path separator 
or a parent-directory segment is filtered out before an exchange is created; 
the prefix option can additionally narrow the listing server-side, noting that 
when both are set regex takes priority and prefix is ignored. Alternatively, 
avoid the downloadBlobToFile operation on untrusted containers and write the 
payload from the route under a file name the route itself controls, rather than 
one taken from the remote listing. As defence in depth, treat the blob names in 
any externally writable container as untrusted input and do not derive local 
filesystem paths from them.

Credit:

Hiep Nguyen (finder)
n0mi1k (finder)
Andrea Cosentino (remediation developer)

References:

https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-66906.html
https://camel.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66906

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