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CWE-50Path Equivalence: '//multiple/leading/slash'

Category: other

Description

The product accepts path input in the form of multiple leading slash ('//multiple/leading/slash') without appropriate validation, which can lead to ambiguous path resolution and 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

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/50.html

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Path Equivalence: '/multiple/trailing/slash//'
CWE
Path Equivalence: '/multiple//internal/slash'
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filename/' (Trailing Slash)
CWE
Path Equivalence: '\multiple\\internal\backslash'
CWE
Path Equivalence: 'filedir\' (Trailing Backslash)
CWE
Path Equivalence: ' filename' (Leading Space)
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.