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Path Traversal occurrences in Proaccess Space
An issue was discovered in SALTO ProAccess SPACE 5.4.3.0. An attacker can write arbitrary content to arbitrary files, as demonstrated by CVE-2019-19458 files under the web root, or .bat files that will be used with auto start. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the server. (2019-12-03, CVE-2019-19459)
SALTO ProAccess SPACE 5.4.3.0 allows Directory Traversal in the Data Export feature. (2019-12-03, CVE-2019-19458)
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).