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Directory traversal attack

A directory traversal, path traversal, or dot-dot-slash attack exploits insufficient security validation or sanitization of user-supplied file names, such that characters representing "traverse to parent directory" are passed through to the operating system's file system API. An affected application can be exploited to gain unauthorized access to the…

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Directory traversal attack

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Avg. degree1.93
Density0.074074
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Directory traversal attack → Chroot, Insecure, Possible, The
related to Archives · 2
Directory traversal attack → Code, Some

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the IIS web server.ArchivesSome archive formats like zip allow for directory traversal attacksinstance ofbut has still led to directory traversal vulnerabilities in software0.80text
the IIS web serverinstance ofbut has still led to directory traversal vulnerabilities in software0.80text
Directory traversal attackrelated to ArchivesSome0.60section
Directory traversal attackrelated to ArchivesCode0.60section
Directory traversal attacksee alsoChroot0.60section
Directory traversal attacksee alsoPossible0.60section
Directory traversal attacksee alsoThe0.60section
Directory traversal attacksee alsoInsecure0.60section

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