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Path Traversal occurrences in Sahi Pro
Within Sahi Pro 8.0.0, an attacker can send a specially crafted URL to include any victim files on the system via the script parameter on the Script_view page. This will result in file disclosure (i.e., being able to pull any file from the remote victim application). This can be used to steal and obtain sensitive config and other files. This can result in complete compromise of the application. The script parameter is vulnerable to directory traversal and both local and remote file inclusion. (2019-09-23, CVE-2019-13063)
An issue was discovered in Tyto Sahi Pro through 7.x.x and 8.0.0. A directory traversal (arbitrary file access) vulnerability exists in the web reports module. This allows an outside attacker to view contents of sensitive files. (2019-06-17, CVE-2018-20470)
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).