When it comes to security, Web sites unfortunately take the back seat. Sure, their handiness has made Web applications ever more popular with users. But their status as a channel between a company’s ...

About as simple to fix as they are to exploit, directory traversal vulnerabilities stand as a persistent threat in the application environment. Yet it is one that many developers and even security ...

In September, researchers discovered a “critical severity” directory traversal vulnerability in Atlassian’s Jira Service Desk Server and Jira Service Desk Data Center that could allow attackers to ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Directory traversal vulnerabilities are a threat that the US CISA and the FBI would like to nip in the bud. IT security should already be taken into account when developing software, which is why CISA ...

There’s a serious security vulnerability in the Belkin N150 wireless router that can enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read any system file on a vulnerable router. The bug is a directory ...

US Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI have issued a joint advisory to developers, urging them to check for path traversal vulnerabilities before shipping a software.

Today I’m presenting another in a series of the best essays submitted by students in information assurance and cybercrime courses at Norwich University. Curtis Coleman is a student in the Master of ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...