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Path Traversal occurrences in Mcp Mapping Viewer
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in bspkrs MCPMappingViewer. Affected by this issue is the function extractZip of the file src/main/java/bspkrs/mmv/RemoteZipHandler.java of the component ZIP File Handler. The manipulation leads to path traversal. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 6e602746c96b4756c271d080dae7d22ad804a1bd. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-215804. (2022-12-14, CVE-2022-4494)
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).