English Explanatory Dictionary

directory traversal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An attack in which the attacker causes a system to move from an allowed path or directory to one which is meant to be private via path change commands.

Word forms

directory traversal directory traversals

Synonyms

backtracing directory climbing dot dot slash path traversal
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