Vulnerabilites related to OWASP ESAPI - org.owasp.esapi:esapi
cve-2022-23457
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-25 00:00
Modified
2025-04-22 18:14
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OWASP ESAPI org.owasp.esapi:esapi Version: 2.3.0.0   < 2.3.0.0
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