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Path Traversal occurrences in Interactive Graphical Scada System Data Collector
A CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory vulnerability exists that could cause disclosure of arbitrary files being read in the context of the user running IGSS, due to missing validation of user supplied data in network messages. Affected Product: Interactive Graphical SCADA System Data Collector (dc.exe) (V15.0.0.21243 and prior) (2022-02-11, CVE-2021-22804)
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).