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Path Traversal occurrences in Manageengine Desktop Central
Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central before 10.0.484 allows authenticated arbitrary file writes during ZIP archive extraction via Directory Traversal in a crafted AppDependency API request. (2020-05-05, CVE-2020-10859)
An issue was discovered in Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central 10.0.124 and 10.0.184: directory traversal in the SCRIPT_NAME field when modifying existing scripts. (2018-04-18, CVE-2018-5337)
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).