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Path Traversal occurrences in Core Ftp
CoreFTP Server before 727 allows directory traversal (for file creation) by an authenticated attacker via ../ in an HTTP PUT request. (2022-01-10, CVE-2022-22836)
An issue was discovered in the SFTP Server component in Core FTP 2.0 Build 674. Using the MDTM FTP command, a remote attacker can use a directory traversal technique (..\..\) to browse outside the root directory to determine the existence of a file on the operating system, and its last modified date. (2019-03-22, CVE-2019-9649)
An issue was discovered in the SFTP Server component in Core FTP 2.0 Build 674. A directory traversal vulnerability exists using the SIZE command along with a \..\..\ substring, allowing an attacker to enumerate file existence based on the returned information. (2019-03-22, CVE-2019-9648)
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).