CVE-2021-29425: The Commons IO Path Traversal Bug
CVE-2021-29425 shows how a single unhandled case in Apache Commons IO's path normalization let attackers slip past directory checks that assumed a canonicalized path was actually safe.
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CVE-2021-29425 shows how a single unhandled case in Apache Commons IO's path normalization let attackers slip past directory checks that assumed a canonicalized path was actually safe.
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