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Hell, I recently saw an application where there was unchecked input for being able to download files outside the application... if you passed it a path of, for example `../../somefoo-file` would take you out of that application's path.


This is called either a Local File Inclusion or a Directory Traversal Vulnerability. The name depends on the details. It's really really common, and definitely something I see a lot of.

The OWASP Top 10 is deadly.




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