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Path Traversal occurrences in Grandnode
A Path Traversal vulnerability in Controllers/LetsEncryptController.cs in LetsEncryptController in GrandNode 4.40 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to retrieve arbitrary files on the web server via specially crafted LetsEncrypt/Index?fileName= HTTP requests. A patch for this issue was made on 2019-05-30 in GrandNode 4.40. (2019-06-05, CVE-2019-12276)
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).