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Path Traversal occurrences in Netweaver Master Data Management Server
Under specific circumstances SAP Master Data Management, versions - 710, 710.750, allows an unauthorized attacker to exploit insufficient validation of path information provided by users, thus characters representing 'traverse to parent directory' are passed through to the file APIs. Due to this Directory Traversal vulnerability the attacker could read content of arbitrary files on the remote server and expose sensitive data. (2021-02-09, CVE-2021-21475)
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).