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1 vulnerability by OWASP ESAPI
CVE-2022-23457 (GCVE-0-2022-23457)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-04-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 19:26
VLAI?
Summary
ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web application security control library. Prior to version 2.3.0.0, the default implementation of `Validator.getValidDirectoryPath(String, String, File, boolean)` may incorrectly treat the tested input string as a child of the specified parent directory. This potentially could allow control-flow bypass checks to be defeated if an attack can specify the entire string representing the 'input' path. This vulnerability is patched in release 2.3.0.0 of ESAPI. As a workaround, it is possible to write one's own implementation of the Validator interface. However, maintainers do not recommend this.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWASP ESAPI | org.owasp.esapi:esapi |
Affected:
2.3.0.0 , < 2.3.0.0
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