The article Secure Coding: Preventing unauthorized access through path traversal (CWE-22) has already described the dangers posed by the critical vulnerability CWE-22 (path traversal) in software ...

The previous two posts in my NIO.2 cookbook series presented simple recipes for copying and moving files, deleting files and directories, working with paths and attributes, and performing various ...

Apache Commons IO provides a set of utilities for working with the file system that can be helpful in preventing path traversal vulnerabilities. The FilenameUtils class contains methods for ...

My previous post launched a three-part series on NIO.2 recipes. I presented three recipes for copying files, deleting files and directories, and moving files. In this post, I present path-related ...