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Path Traversal occurrences in Bsa Radar
downloadFile.ashx in the Administrator section of the Surveillance module in Global RADAR BSA Radar 1.6.7234.24750 and earlier allows users to download transaction files. When downloading the files, a user is able to view local files on the web server by manipulating the FileName and FilePath parameters in the URL, or while using a proxy. This vulnerability could be used to view local sensitive files or configuration files. (2020-06-22, CVE-2020-14946)
Why Path Traversal can be dangerous
Relative Path Confusion means that your web server is configured to serve responses to ambiguous URLs. This configuration can possibly cause confusion about the correct relative path for the URL. It is also an issue of resources, such as images, styles etc., which are specified in the response using relative path, not the absolute URL.
If the web browser permits to parse "cross-content" response, the attacker may be able to fool the web browser into interpreting HTML into other content types, which can then lead to a cross site scripting attack (link do XSS).