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Path Traversal occurrences in Solution Manager
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 (User Experience Monitoring), version - 7.2, allows an authenticated user to upload a malicious script that can exploit an existing path traversal vulnerability to compromise confidentiality exposing elements of the file system, partially compromise integrity allowing the modification of some configurations and partially compromise availability by making certain services unavailable. (2020-12-09, CVE-2020-26837)
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).