Directory Traversal The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package apache-commons-io-javadoc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-APACHECOMMONSIOJAVADOC-1357866
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed12 Apr 2021

Introduced: 12 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-29425  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache-commons-io-javadoc package and not the apache-commons-io-javadoc package as distributed by RHEL.

In Apache Commons IO before 2.7, When invoking the method FileNameUtils.normalize with an improper input string, like "//../foo", or "\..\foo", the result would be the same value, thus possibly providing access to files in the parent directory, but not further above (thus "limited" path traversal), if the calling code would use the result to construct a path value.

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