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Relative Path Traversal

CVE-2023-23379

Severity High
Score 7.8/10

Summary

Microsoft Defender for IoT Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize sequences such as ".." that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published