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CVE-2022-23457
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-04-25T20:15:41.870 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:30:09.737

Summary

ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web application security control library. Prior to version 2.3.0.0, the default implementation of `Validator.getValidDirectoryPath(String, String, File, boolean)` may incorrectly treat the tested input string as a child of the specified parent directory. This potentially could allow control-flow bypass checks to be defeated if an attack can specify the entire string representing the 'input' path. This vulnerability is patched in release 2.3.0.0 of ESAPI. As a workaround, it is possible to write one's own implementation of the Validator interface. However, maintainers do not recommend this.

Affected products

owasp — enterprise_security_api

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