CVE-2026-66907: Apache Camel: Camel-Google-Storage: the consumer appended the remote object name to the configured downloadFileName directory without constraining the result

Published Aug 24, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Apache Camel (camel-google-storage component)>4.0.0<=4.14.9, >4.15.0<=4.18.4, >4.19.0<4.22.0

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apache Camel (camel-google-storage) to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.14.9
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apache Camel (camel-google-storage) to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.18.4
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Apache Camel (camel-google-storage) to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.22.0
  4. Configuration

    For deployments that cannot upgrade immediately, set the camel-google-storage filter option to a regular expression that accepts only simple single-segment object names; exclude any name containing a path separator or a parent-directory segment. Note: no filtering is applied when the filter option is left unset, and the expression is matched against the whole object name.

    Apache Camel: camel-google-storage filter = "<regular expression matching only single-segment object names; exclude names containing path separators or parent-directory segments>"
  5. Compensating control

    Treat object names from any externally writable Google Cloud Storage bucket as untrusted input and do not derive local filesystem paths from them (e.g., avoid appending blob/object names to downloadFileName without constraining the result to the configured directory).

Event History

Aug 24, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·04:13 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·04:13 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·05:18 PM
DescriptionWeakness

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