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Path Traversal occurrences in Fabric Operating System
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** A vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS versions v7.4.1b and v7.3.1d could allow local users to conduct privileged directory transversal. Brocade Fabric OS versions v7.4.1.x and v7.3.x have reached end of life. Brocade Fabric OS Users should upgrade to supported versions as described in the Product End-of-Life Publish report. (2022-08-05, CVE-2021-27798)
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).