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Path Traversal occurrences in Emc Appsync
Dell EMC AppSync versions from 3.9 to 4.3 contain a path traversal vulnerability in AppSync server. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized read access to the files stored on the server filesystem, with the privileges of the running web application. (2022-04-21, CVE-2022-24424)
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).