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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 28, 2023· Updated Mar 7, 2025

Path traversal on Windows in path/filepath

CVE-2022-41722

Description

A path traversal vulnerability exists in filepath.Clean on Windows. On Windows, the filepath.Clean function could transform an invalid path such as "a/../c:/b" into the valid path "c:\b". This transformation of a relative (if invalid) path into an absolute path could enable a directory traversal attack. After fix, the filepath.Clean function transforms this path into the relative (but still invalid) path ".\c:\b".

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