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Path Traversal occurrences in Teamcenter Active Workspace
A vulnerability has been identified in Teamcenter Active Workspace V4.3 (All versions < V4.3.11), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.0 (All versions < V5.0.10), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.1 (All versions < V5.1.6), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.2 (All versions < V5.2.3). The application contains an unsafe unzipping pattern that could lead to a zip path traversal attack. This could allow and attacker to execute a remote shell with admin rights. (2021-12-14, CVE-2021-41547)
A vulnerability has been identified in Teamcenter Active Workspace V4.3 (All versions < V4.3.10), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.0 (All versions < V5.0.8), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.1 (All versions < V5.1.5), Teamcenter Active Workspace V5.2 (All versions < V5.2.1). A path traversal vulnerability in the application could allow an attacker to bypass certain restrictions such as direct access to other services within the host. (2021-09-14, CVE-2021-40357)
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).