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Path Traversal occurrences in Servermanagement
ServerManagement master branch as of commit 49491cc6f94980e6be7791d17be947c27071eb56 is affected by a directory traversal vulnerability. This vulnerability can be used to extract credentials which can in turn be used to execute code. (2021-11-12, CVE-2021-43493)
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).