"CISA Urges Software Devs to Weed out Path Traversal Vulnerabilities"

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) call on software companies to review for and fix path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping. Path traversal vulnerabilities allow attackers to create or overwrite critical files used to execute code or evade authentication. Threat actors can use such security flaws to access sensitive data like credentials to brute-force accounts and breach targeted systems. Overwriting, deleting, or corrupting authentication files could disable vulnerable systems and lock out all users. This joint alert follows recent threat actor campaigns that exploited directory traversal vulnerabilities in software to compromise users, affecting critical infrastructure sectors. This article continues to discuss the joint alert regarding path traversal vulnerabilities.

Bleeping Computer reports "CISA Urges Software Devs to Weed out Path Traversal Vulnerabilities"

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