Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-29
CWE-29: Path Traversal: '..filename'
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize '..filename' (leading backslash dot dot) sequences that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.
Published:19 Jul 2006
Organization:MITRE
Modified:11 Dec 2025
Related Weakness
CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
