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  1. vuln-fix: Partial Path Traversal Vulnerability

    This fixes a partial path traversal vulnerability.
    
    Replaces `dir.getCanonicalPath().startsWith(parent.getCanonicalPath())`, which is vulnerable to partial path traversal attacks, with the more secure `dir.getCanonicalFile().toPath().startsWith(parent.getCanonicalFile().toPath())`.
    
    To demonstrate this vulnerability, consider `"/usr/outnot".startsWith("/usr/out")`.
    The check is bypassed although `/outnot` is not under the `/out` directory.
    It's important to understand that the terminating slash may be removed when using various `String` representations of the `File` object.
    For example, on Linux, `println(new File("/var"))` will print `/var`, but `println(new File("/var", "/")` will print `/var/`;
    however, `println(new File("/var", "/").getCanonicalPath())` will print `/var`.
    
    Weakness: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
    Severity: Medium
    CVSSS: 6.1
    Detection: CodeQL & OpenRewrite (https://public.moderne.io/recipes/org.openrewrite.java.security.PartialPathTraversalVulnerability)
    
    Reported-by: Jonathan Leitschuh <[email protected]>
    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Leitschuh <[email protected]>
    
    Bug-tracker: JLLeitschuh/security-research#13
    
    Co-authored-by: Moderne <[email protected]>
    JLLeitschuh and TeamModerne committed Sep 21, 2022
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