Relative Path Traversal

This is an Attack. To view all attacks, please see the Attack Category page.

Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 06/3/2009

Overview

This attack is a variant of Path Traversal and can be exploited when the application accepts the use of relative traversal sequences such as "../".

Related Security Activities

How to Avoid Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

See the OWASP Guide article on how to Avoid Path Traversal Vulnerabilities.

How to Test for Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

See the OWASP Testing Guide article on how to Test for Path Traversal Vulnerabilities.

More detailed information can be found on Path_Traversal

Description

TBD

Examples

The following URLs are vulnerable to this attack:

 http://some_site.com.br/get-files.jsp?file=report.pdf  
 http://some_site.com.br/get-page.php?home=aaa.html  
 http://some_site.com.br/some-page.asp?page=index.html  

A simple way to execute this attack is like this:

 http://some_site.com.br/get-files?file=../../../../some dir/some file  
 http://some_site.com.br/../../../../etc/shadow  
 http://some_site.com.br/get-files?file=../../../../etc/passwd 

Risk Factors

TBD

Related Threat Agents

• Category: Information Disclosure

Related Attacks

• Path Manipulation
• Path Traversal
• Resource Injection

Related Vulnerabilities

• Category:Input Validation Vulnerability

Related Controls

• Category:Input Validation

References

TBD