Directory Traversal: Examples, Testing, and Prevention

Unveiling the Enigma of Path Navigation: An Exhaustive Exploration and Insight Path Navigation, often referred to as Folder Navigation, symbolizes a kind of security extraction point allowing unauthorized individuals to gain unauthorized access to specific files held within a server's database...

PT-2024-2793 · Dell · Dell Unity

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Dell Unity versions prior to 5.4 Description: The issue is related to a path traversal vulnerability in the svc supportassist utility of Dell Unity. An authenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized...

Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of relative URLs starting with "///"

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Relative URLs starting with three slashes were incorrectly parsed, and a path-traversal "/../" part in the path could be used to override the specified host. This could contribute to security problems in web sites...

Mozilla: Incorrect parsing of relative URLs starting with "///"

The Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory describes this flaw as: Relative URLs starting with three slashes were incorrectly parsed, and a path-traversal "/../" part in the path could be used to override the specified host. This could contribute to security problems in web sites...

USN-6515-1 thunderbird vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, cross-site tracing,...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-4244

A flaw was found in codeplex-codehaus. A directory traversal attack also known as path traversal aims to access files and directories stored outside the intended folder. By manipulating files with "dot-dot-slash ../" sequences and their variations or by using absolute file paths, it may be possib...

Directory traversal

An issue was discovered in Wind River VxWorks 6.9 and 7. The function tarExtract implements TAR file extraction and thereby also processes files within an archive that have relative or absolute file paths. A developer using the "tarExtract" function may expect that the function will strip leading...

Medium: openssh

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in OpenSSH 7.4 on Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 1. The fix for CVE-2019-6111 only covered cases where an absolute path is passed to scp. When a relative path is used there is no verification that the name of a file received by the client matches the file...

GHSA-2XX4-JJ5V-6MFF Nuclei Path Traversal vulnerability

Overview We have identified and addressed a security issue in the Nuclei project that affected users utilizing Nuclei as Go code SDK running custom templates. This issue did not affect CLI users. The problem was related to sanitization issues with payloads loading in sandbox mode. Details In the...

CVE-2023-37896 Nuclei Path Traversal vulnerability

Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner. Prior to version 2.9.9, a security issue in the Nuclei project affected users utilizing Nuclei as Go code SDK running custom templates. This issue did not affect CLI users. The problem was related to sanitization issues with payload loading in sandbox mode. Ther...

PT-2023-26560 · Unknown · Cypress-Image-Snapshot

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: cypress-image-snapshot versions prior to 8.0.2 Description: The issue allows a user to pass a relative file path for the snapshot name, potentially reaching outside of the project directory into the machine running the test. This can be...

Path Traversal

org.openrefine is vulnerable to Path Traversal. The vulnerability exists because the OpenRefine project tar files are not properly escaping their root directory in the untar function of FileProjectManager.java, which allows an attacker to access files outside the expected directory using relative...

Arbitrary file read using percent-encoded relative paths in FileMiddleware

Attackers can access data at arbitrary filesystem paths on the same host as an application using FileMiddleware...

CVE-2023-32309

PyMdown Extensions is a set of extensions for the Python-Markdown markdown project. In affected versions an arbitrary file read is possible when using include file syntax. By using the syntax --8--"/etc/passwd" or --8--"/proc/self/environ" the content of these files will be rendered in the...

CVE-2023-32309 Arbitrary file inclusion with the pymdowm-snippets extension

PyMdown Extensions is a set of extensions for the Python-Markdown markdown project. In affected versions an arbitrary file read is possible when using include file syntax. By using the syntax --8--"/etc/passwd" or --8--"/proc/self/environ" the content of these files will be rendered in the...

Path Traversal

spring-boot-actuator-logview is vulnerable to Path Traversal. The vulnerability exists in the securityCheck function of LogViewEndpoint.java because it does not properly validate relative paths, allowing an attacker to access files outside the expected directory through the path such as /usr/outn...

Path Traversal

mlflow is vulnerable to Path Traversal. The vulnerability exists due to the improper source validation in the validatesource function of handlers.py, which allows an attacker to access files outside the expected directory through relative paths...

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) in Pay

Impact A payments info page of Pay is susceptible to reflected Cross-site scripting. An attacker could create a working URL that renders a javascript link to a user on a Rails application that integrates Pay. This URL could be distributed via email to specifically target certain individuals. If t...

GHSA-CQF3-VPX7-RXHW Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) in Pay

Impact A payments info page of Pay is susceptible to reflected Cross-site scripting. An attacker could create a working URL that renders a javascript link to a user on a Rails application that integrates Pay. This URL could be distributed via email to specifically target certain individuals. If t...

Improper Neutralization of Script-Related HTML Tags in a Web Page (Basic XSS) in Pay

Impact A payments info page of Pay is susceptible to reflected Cross-site scripting. An attacker could create a working URL that renders a javascript link to a user on a Rails application that integrates Pay. This URL could be distributed via email to specifically target certain individuals. If t...