CVE-2026-66906 Apache Camel
| Affected software | Apache Camel |
|---|---|
| Severity | 9.1 Critical CVSS 3.1 |
| Fixed in | 4.14.9, 4.18.4, 4.22.0 |
| Weakness | Relative path traversal (CWE-23) |
| Published | 24 Aug 2026 |
| Updated | 12 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.
Exploitation status
- 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
| Index | Artifact | Stars | First 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
Waratek has a rule that blocks attacks on this vulnerability.
- Protection full Path traversal
- Action available security rule
- Review automated Inferred
- Record active
| 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.
Affected software and releases
Maven packages
Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev| Package | Introduced | Fixed | Last 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| Source | Vendor | Product | Scheme | Affected 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
Timeline
Timeline
| Published | 2026-08-24 | By the CVE Program. |
|---|---|---|
| NVD record modified | 2026-10-12 | NVD's own last-modified date for this record. |