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However, maintainers do not recommend 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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.","status":"published","published":"2022-04-25T00:00:00Z","modified":"2025-11-03T19:26:49Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T19:49:34.152725Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-8m5h-hrqm-pxm2","title":"Path traversal in the OWASP Enterprise Security API","description":"### Impact\nThe 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.\n\n### Patches\nThis vulnerability is patched in release 2.3.0.0 of ESAPI. See https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/releases/tag/esapi-2.3.0.0 for details.\n\n### Workarounds\nYes; in theory, one _could_ write the own implementation of the Validator interface. This would most easily be done by sub-classing a version of the affected `DefaultValidator` class and then overriding the affected `getValidDirectoryPath()` to correct the issue. However, this is not recommended.\n\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email one of the project co-leaders. See email addresses listed on  the [OWASP ESAPI wiki](https://owasp.org/www-project-enterprise-security-api/) page, under \"Leaders\".\n* Send email to one of the two ESAPI related Google Groups listed under [Where to Find More Information on ESAPI](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#where-to-find-more-information-on-esapi) on our [README.md](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#readme) page.","status":"published","published":"2022-04-27T21:09:43Z","modified":"2025-11-03T22:28:23Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:39:05.278442Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2022-23457","description":"ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web application security control library. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2022-04-25T20:15:41.87Z","modified":"2026-11-03T08:00:39.343513439Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-03T08:25:15.646766Z"},{"id":"GHSA-8m5h-hrqm-pxm2","title":"Path traversal in the OWASP Enterprise Security API","description":"### Impact\nThe 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.\n\n### Patches\nThis vulnerability is patched in release 2.3.0.0 of ESAPI. See https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/releases/tag/esapi-2.3.0.0 for details.\n\n### Workarounds\nYes; in theory, one _could_ write the own implementation of the Validator interface. This would most easily be done by sub-classing a version of the affected `DefaultValidator` class and then overriding the affected `getValidDirectoryPath()` to correct the issue. However, this is not recommended.\n\n\n### For more information\nIf you have any questions or comments about this advisory:\n* Email one of the project co-leaders. See email addresses listed on  the [OWASP ESAPI wiki](https://owasp.org/www-project-enterprise-security-api/) page, under \"Leaders\".\n* Send email to one of the two ESAPI related Google Groups listed under [Where to Find More Information on ESAPI](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#where-to-find-more-information-on-esapi) on our [README.md](https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy#readme) page.","status":"published","published":"2022-04-27T21:09:43Z","modified":"2025-11-03T22:32:59.652841Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-22"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:42.437513Z"},{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-23457","description":"ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web application security control library. 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This\nissue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS,\nand Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23457)\n\nKevin W. Wall and Sebastian Passaro discovered that ESAPI did not properly\nsanitize javascript URLs because of an incorrect regular expression. An\nattacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting\nattack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu\n20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-24891)\n\nLonglong Gong discovered that ESAPI did not properly neutralize special\nelements during SQL injection defense. A remote attacker could possibly use\nthis issue to perform SQL injection. (CVE-2025-5878)","status":"published","published":"2026-04-16T17:56:26Z","modified":"2026-06-25T13:32:31.883898914Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T16:58:22.951676Z"}]}}