Description
A software system that accepts path input in the form of asterisk wildcard (‘filedir*’) without appropriate validation can lead to ambiguous path resolution and allow an attacker to traverse the file system to unintended locations or access arbitrary files.
Modes of Introduction:
– Implementation
Related Weaknesses
Consequences
Confidentiality, Integrity: Read Files or Directories, Modify Files or Directories
Potential Mitigations
Phase: Implementation
Description:
Inputs should be decoded and canonicalized to the application’s current internal representation before being validated (CWE-180). Make sure that the application does not decode the same input twice (CWE-174). Such errors could be used to bypass allowlist validation schemes by introducing dangerous inputs after they have been checked.
CVE References
- CVE-2004-0696
- List directories using desired path and “*”
- CVE-2002-0433
- List files in web server using “*.ext”