CWE-26Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename'

Description

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize "/dir/../filename" sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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Common consequences

• Confidentiality,Integrity→Read Files or Directories,Modify Files or Directories

Potential mitigations

• Implementation
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• Implementation
  Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application's current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.

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