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CWE-38Path Traversal: '\absolute\pathname\here'

Category: other

Description

The product accepts input in the form of a backslash absolute path ('\absolute\pathname\here') without appropriate validation, which can allow an attacker to traverse the file system to unintended locations or access arbitrary files.

Common consequences· 1

  • Confidentiality / Integrity — Read Files or Directories, Modify Files or Directories

Potential mitigations· 2

  • [Implementation]
  • [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.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/38.html

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Path Traversal: '/absolute/pathname/here'
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filedir\' (Trailing Backslash)
CWE
Path Equivalence: '\multiple\\internal\backslash'
CWE
Absolute Path Traversal
CWE
Path Traversal: 'C:dirname'
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filename/' (Trailing Slash)
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.