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 ...

Virtualization vendor VMware has patched a critical vulnerability in its VMware View desktop virtualization product that could have led to a directory traversal attack and an attacker reading or ...

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 ...

TL;DR: WinRAR has a critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025-6218) allowing remote code execution via directory traversal in Windows versions. This exploit risks sensitive data and system integrity.

CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Attackers can exploit path traversal vulnerabilities ...

Common Weakness Enumeration CWE-22, commonly referred to as "path traversal", is a vulnerability in which an application does not appropriately restrict the paths that users can access via ...

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 ...

Multiple threat actors, both state-sponsored and financially motivated, are exploiting the CVE-2025-8088 high-severity ...