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Path Traversal occurrences in Notes
Path traversal vulnerability in UriFileUtils of Samsung Notes prior to version 4.3.14.39 allows attacker to access some file as Samsung Notes permission. (2022-08-05, CVE-2022-36831)
Path Traversal vulnerability in Samsung Notes prior to version 4.2.00.22 allows attackers to access local files without permission. (2021-03-25, CVE-2021-25367)
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Samsung Notes Fixed in version 2.0.02.31. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of ZIP files. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of a user-supplied path prior to using it in file operations. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to escalate privileges to resources normally protected from the application. Was ZDI-CAN-5358. (2018-09-24, CVE-2018-10501)
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).