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CVE-2026-66906 Apache Camel

Affected softwareApache Camel
Severity9.1 Critical CVSS 3.1
Fixed in4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0
WeaknessRelative path traversal (CWE-23)
Published24 Aug 2026
Updated12 Oct 2026

Published 2 months ago. NVD often adds the list of affected products days or weeks after a CVE is published, and the other sources we check lag too. The scope and status here may change.

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.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. The 1 repository below are public GitHub repositories with fewer than 5 stars.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed, none at 5+ stars
  • EPSS 0.72% chance in 30 days

1 of these are GitHub repositories with fewer than 5 stars. They are listed for reference and don't count toward the exploitation status above.

IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
GitHub PoC Reproducer for CVE-2026-66906 (Apache Camel camel-azure-storage-blob downloadBlobToFile path traversal) — Camel Spring Boot + Camel Quarkus 2026-08-24

Waratek protection

Protected by Waratek

Waratek has a rule that blocks attacks on this vulnerability.

Decided by A vulnerability class already blocked by an ARMR security rule
Finding Protected by Waratek's ARMR path-traversal security rule, which blocks this class of attack at the JVM level without a rule written for this CVE specifically. The CVE's weakness is CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal.

How to mitigate CVE-2026-66906

Upgrade Apache Camel to a release that fixes it: 4.14.9, 4.18.4 or 4.22.0. Until you can, Waratek RASP blocks exploitation with its path traversal rule. It runs inside the Java application, with no code changes.

Waratek RASP Runtime protection for Java applications

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob 4.0.0 4.14.9 unbounded
org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob 4.15.0 4.18.4 unbounded
org.apache.camel:camel-azure-storage-blob 4.19.0 4.22.0 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 6 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd apache camel generic ≥ 4.0.0 and < 4.14.9 · ≥ 4.15.0 and < 4.18.4 · ≥ 4.19.0 and < 4.22.0
osv org.apache.camel camel-azure-storage-blob generic ≥ 4.0.0 and < 4.14.9 · ≥ 4.15.0 and < 4.18.4 · ≥ 4.19.0 and < 4.22.0

References

URLTags
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/24581 WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/24582 WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/pull/24585 WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/commit/007929bb732a8c5e3e49d4d3c6c8adc2aab13340 WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/commit/55fcbaf8bc1936cae90abdea5adecbc43e57340e WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/commit/857d0cd3024b706ce80f3d2a4aa111e5e94a3e59 WEB
https://camel.apache.org/security/CVE-2026-66906.html WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel PACKAGE
https://github.com/apache/camel/releases/tag/camel-4.14.9 WEB
https://github.com/apache/camel/releases/tag/camel-4.18.4 WEB

Timeline

Published2026-08-24By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-10-12NVD's own last-modified date for this record.