VYPR

CWE-22

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

BaseStableLikelihood: High

Description

The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

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Related attack patterns (CAPEC)

CAPEC-126 · CAPEC-64 · CAPEC-76 · CAPEC-78 · CAPEC-79

CVEs mapped to this weakness (10,485)

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  • CVE-2022-24716HigMar 8, 2022
    risk 0.10cvss 7.5epss 0.89

    Icinga Web 2 is an open source monitoring web interface, framework and command-line interface. Unauthenticated users can leak the contents of files of the local system accessible to the web-server user, including `icingaweb2` configuration files with database credentials. This…

  • CVE-2015-2996Jun 8, 2015
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.87

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in SysAid Help Desk before 15.2 allow remote attackers to (1) read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter to getGfiUpgradeFile or (2) cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a .. (dot dot) in…

  • CVE-2013-7091Dec 13, 2013
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.86

    Directory traversal vulnerability in /res/I18nMsg,AjxMsg,ZMsg,ZmMsg,AjxKeys,ZmKeys,ZdMsg,Ajx%20TemplateMsg.js.zgz in Zimbra 7.2.2 and 8.0.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the skin parameter. NOTE: this can be leveraged to execute…

  • CVE-2012-4940Oct 31, 2012
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.85

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the View Log Files component in Axigen Free Mail Server allow remote attackers to read or delete arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in (1) the fileName parameter in a download action to source/loggin/page_log_dwn_file.hsp, or the…

  • CVE-2011-0063Mar 15, 2011
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.85

    The _list_file_get function in lib/Majordomo.pm in Majordomo 2 20110203 and earlier allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files via a ./.../ sequence in the "extra" parameter to the help command, which causes the regular expression to…

  • CVE-2009-3733Nov 2, 2009
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.83

    Directory traversal vulnerability in VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.10 build 203137 and 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138 on Linux, VMware ESXi 3.5, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 and 3.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

  • CVE-2009-2265Jul 5, 2009
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.84

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in FCKeditor before 2.6.4.1 allow remote attackers to create executable files in arbitrary directories via directory traversal sequences in the input to unspecified connector modules, as exploited in the wild for remote code execution…

  • CVE-2008-6508Mar 23, 2009
    risk 0.10cvss —epss 0.84

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the AuthCheck filter in the Admin Console in Openfire 3.6.0a and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and access the admin interface via a .. (dot dot) in a URI that matches the Exclude-Strings list, as demonstrated by a…

  • CVE-2026-71514LowAug 22, 2026
    risk 0.09cvss 2.5epss 0.00

    NLTK 3.9.4 through 3.10.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability in CrubadanCorpusReader. _load_lang_ngrams joins the corpus root with crubadan_code, the column-0 value read from the corpus table.txt mapping file, and opens the result with the builtin open() rather than the…

  • CVE-2026-27139LowMar 6, 2026
    risk 0.09cvss 2.5epss 0.00

    On Unix platforms, when listing the contents of a directory using File.ReadDir or File.Readdir the returned FileInfo could reference a file outside of the Root in which the File was opened. The impact of this escape is limited to reading metadata provided by lstat from arbitrary…

  • CVE-2010-5324Jun 7, 2015
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.72

    Directory traversal vulnerability in UploadServlet in the Remote Management component in Novell ZENworks Configuration Management (ZCM) 10 before 10.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a zenworks-fileupload request with a crafted directory name in the type…

  • CVE-2014-7866Dec 10, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.80

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in ZOHO ManageEngine OpManager 8 (build 88xx) through 11.4, IT360 10.3 and 10.4, and Social IT Plus 11.0 allow remote attackers or remote authenticated users to write and execute arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the (1) fileName…

  • CVE-2014-6034Dec 4, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.79

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the com.me.opmanager.extranet.remote.communication.fw.fe.FileCollector servlet in ZOHO ManageEngine OpManager 8.8 through 11.3, Social IT Plus 11.0, and IT360 10.4 and earlier allows remote attackers or remote authenticated users to write to…

  • CVE-2014-5005Oct 21, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.78

    Directory traversal vulnerability in ZOHO ManageEngine Desktop Central (DC) before 9 build 90055 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter in an LFU action to statusUpdate.

  • CVE-2014-3914Aug 7, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.73

    Directory traversal vulnerability in the Admin Center for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) in Rocket ServerGraph 1.2 allows remote attackers to (1) create arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the query parameter in a writeDataFile action to the fileRequestor servlet, execute…

  • CVE-2013-6221Jun 18, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.78

    Directory traversal vulnerability in CommunicationServlet in HP Service Virtualization 3.x before 3.50.1, when the AutoPass license server is enabled, allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files and consequently execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, aka…

  • CVE-2013-2641Mar 18, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.71

    Directory traversal vulnerability in patience.cgi in Sophos Web Appliance before 3.7.8.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the id parameter.

  • CVE-2014-0750Jan 25, 2014
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.70

    Directory traversal vulnerability in gefebt.exe in the WebView CimWeb components in GE Intelligent Platforms Proficy HMI/SCADA - CIMPLICITY through 8.2 SIM 24, and Proficy Process Systems with CIMPLICITY, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTTP…

  • CVE-2012-4959Nov 18, 2012
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.71

    Directory traversal vulnerability in NFRAgent.exe in Novell File Reporter 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to upload and execute files via a 130 /FSF/CMD request with a .. (dot dot) in a FILE element of an FSFUI record.

  • CVE-2012-4958Nov 18, 2012
    risk 0.09cvss —epss 0.74

    Directory traversal vulnerability in NFRAgent.exe in Novell File Reporter 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a 126 /FSF/CMD request with a .. (dot dot) in a FILE element of an FSFUI record.