diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index a3f46ba..cc91d78 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ install:
   - export PATH="$HOME/.deno/bin:$PATH"
 
 script:
-  - deno test --allow-read='.' test/*
+  - deno test --allow-read test/*
diff --git a/dependencies.ts b/dependencies.ts
index 566ea5d..b38d516 100644
--- a/dependencies.ts
+++ b/dependencies.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as cookie from 'https://deno.land/std@v0.56.0/http/cookie.ts';
 import * as http from 'https://deno.land/std@v0.56.0/http/server.ts';
 import { Status as status, STATUS_TEXT as statusText } from 'https://deno.land/std@v0.56.0/http/http_status.ts';
 import * as mime from 'https://cdn.pika.dev/mime-types@2.1.27';
+import * as path from 'https://deno.land/std@v0.56.0/path/mod.ts';
 
 export {
     React,
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ export {
     cookie,
     http,
     mime,
+    path,
     status,
     statusText
 };
diff --git a/lib/toolkit.ts b/lib/toolkit.ts
index 17c9bd4..f94ae59 100644
--- a/lib/toolkit.ts
+++ b/lib/toolkit.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
 import Response from './response.ts';
+import * as bang from './bang.ts';
 import { ResponseBody } from './types.ts';
+import isPathInside from './util/is-path-inside.ts';
 import { mime } from '../dependencies.ts';
 
+interface FileHandlerOptions {
+    confine: boolean | string
+}
+
 export default class Toolkit {
-    async file(path: string): Promise<Response> {
+    async file(path: string, options?: FileHandlerOptions): Promise<Response> {
+        if (options?.confine !== false) {
+            const confine = typeof options?.confine === 'string' ? options.confine : Deno.cwd();
+            if (!(await isPathInside.fs(path, confine))) {
+                throw bang.forbidden();
+            }
+        }
         const file = await Deno.readFile(path);
         const mediaType = mime.lookup(path);
         const contentType = mime.contentType(mediaType || '');
diff --git a/lib/util/is-path-inside.ts b/lib/util/is-path-inside.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7174381
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/util/is-path-inside.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { path } from '../../dependencies.ts';
+
+const realPathSilent = async (filePath: string): Promise<string> => {
+    try {
+        return await Deno.realPath(filePath);
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+        if (error instanceof Deno.errors.NotFound) {
+            return filePath;
+        }
+        throw error;
+    }
+};
+
+const isPathInside = (childPath: string, parentPath: string): boolean => {
+    const relation = path.relative(parentPath, childPath);
+    return Boolean(
+        relation &&
+        relation !== '..' &&
+        !relation.startsWith('..' + path.SEP) &&
+        relation !== path.resolve(childPath)
+    );
+};
+
+isPathInside.fs = async (childPath: string, parentPath: string): Promise<boolean> => {
+    const [realChildPath, realParentPath] = await Promise.all([
+        realPathSilent(childPath),
+        realPathSilent(parentPath)
+    ]);
+    return isPathInside(realChildPath, realParentPath);
+};
+
+export default isPathInside;
diff --git a/test/toolkit.js b/test/toolkit.js
index 0a7e1d0..04efc41 100644
--- a/test/toolkit.js
+++ b/test/toolkit.js
@@ -102,3 +102,25 @@ test('h.file()', async () => {
     assertStrictEq(response.headers.get('content-type'), 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
     assertEquals(response.body, new TextEncoder().encode('[\n    "Alice",\n    "Bob",\n    "Cara"\n]\n'));
 });
+
+test('h.file() outside default confine', async () => {
+    const server = pogo.server();
+    server.route({
+        method : 'GET',
+        path   : '/forbid',
+        handler(request, h) {
+            return h.file('/etc/hosts');
+        }
+    });
+    const response = await server.inject({
+        method : 'GET',
+        url    : '/forbid'
+    });
+    assertStrictEq(response.status, 403);
+    assertStrictEq(response.headers.get('content-type'), 'application/json; charset=utf-8');
+    assertEquals(response.body, JSON.stringify({
+        error   : 'Forbidden',
+        message : 'Forbidden',
+        status  : 403
+    }));
+});