What is a path Traversal ?

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by sidney , in category: Technology , 3 years ago

What is a path Traversal ?

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by melvina , 3 years ago

Path Traversal also is known as Directory Traversal is referring to an attack which is attacked by an attacker to read into the files of the web application. Also, he/she can reveal the content of the file outside the root directory of a web server or any application. Path traversal operates the web application file with the use of dot-dot-slash (../) sequences, as ../ is a cross-platform symbol to go up in the directory.

Path traversal basically implements by an attacker when he/she wants to gain secret passwords, access token or other information stored in the files. Path traversal attack allows the attacker to exploit vulnerabilities present in web file.