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Path Traversal occurrences in Netbackup
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 10.0.0.1 and related Veritas products. The NetBackup Primary server is vulnerable to a Path traversal attack through the DiscoveryService service. (2022-10-03, CVE-2022-42305)
An issue was discovered in Veritas NetBackup through 8.2 and related Veritas products. An attacker with local access can delete arbitrary files by leveraging a path traversal in the pbx_exchange registration code. (2022-10-03, CVE-2022-42308)
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).