diff --git a/src/app/api/v1/[...path]/route.ts b/src/app/api/v1/[...path]/route.ts
index 7955311..73390e4 100644
--- a/src/app/api/v1/[...path]/route.ts
+++ b/src/app/api/v1/[...path]/route.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ import { readToken } from "../../../../server/session";
 
 async function proxy(req: NextRequest, ctx: { params: Promise<{ path: string[] }> }) {
   const { path } = await ctx.params;
+  if (path.some((seg) => seg === ".." || seg === "." || seg === "" || seg.includes("/") || seg.includes("\\"))) {
+    return new NextResponse("bad path", { status: 400 });
+  }
   const token = readToken(req);
   const search = req.nextUrl.search;
   const body = req.method === "GET" || req.method === "HEAD" ? undefined : await req.text();
diff --git a/src/app/api/v1/proxy.route.test.ts b/src/app/api/v1/proxy.route.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37adb51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/app/api/v1/proxy.route.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// @vitest-environment node
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
+vi.mock("../../../server/backend", () => ({ backendFetch: vi.fn(async () => new Response("{}", { status: 200 })) }));
+import { NextRequest } from "next/server";
+import { backendFetch } from "../../../server/backend";
+import { GET } from "./[...path]/route";
+
+describe("v1 proxy route", () => {
+  it("rejects a path-traversal segment with 400 and never calls backendFetch", async () => {
+    const req = new NextRequest("http://x/api/v1/../auth/login");
+    const res = await GET(req, { params: Promise.resolve({ path: ["..", "auth", "login"] }) });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(backendFetch).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("passes through a normal path", async () => {
+    const req = new NextRequest("http://x/api/v1/accounts");
+    const res = await GET(req, { params: Promise.resolve({ path: ["accounts"] }) });
+    expect(res.status).toBe(200);
+    expect(backendFetch).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});