Directory Traversal
Directory Traversal
Directory Traversal refers to the attack in which an authenticated or unauthenticated user can request and view or execute files which reside outside the root directory of a web application,or outside a directory in which they should be restricted to.This results in an attacker being able to read any file which the user running the webserver (commonlywww-data)has access to.If a server has misconfigured file permissions (verycommon),then this attack can be further escalated.
Directory Traversal refers to the attack in which an authenticated or unauthenticated user can request and view or execute files which reside outside the root directory of a web application,or outside a directory in which they should be restricted to.This results in an attacker being able to read any file which the user running the webserver (commonlywww-data)has access to.If a server has misconfigured file permissions (verycommon),then this attack can be further escalated.