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Path Traversal occurrences in Utility Computing Service Meter
Unathenticated directory traversal in the DownloadServlet class execute() method can lead to arbitrary file reads in HPE Pay Per Use (PPU) Utility Computing Service (UCS) Meter version 1.9. (2020-09-23, CVE-2020-24624)
Unathenticated directory traversal in the ReceiverServlet class doGet() method can lead to arbitrary file reads in HPE Pay Per Use (PPU) Utility Computing Service (UCS) Meter version 1.9. (2020-09-23, CVE-2020-24625)
Unathenticated directory traversal in the ReceiverServlet class doPost() method can lead to arbitrary remote code execution in HPE Pay Per Use (PPU) Utility Computing Service (UCS) Meter version 1.9. (2020-09-23, CVE-2020-24626)
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).