CVE-2021-29425: Path Traversal

April 13, 2021 (updated November 7, 2023)

In Apache Commons IO, When invoking the method FileNameUtils.normalize with an improper input string, the result would be the same value, thus possibly providing access to files in the parent directory, but not further above, if the calling code would use the result to construct a path value.

References

issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-556
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29425

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