directory traversal

English

Noun

directory traversal (plural directory traversals)

  1. (cybersecurity) 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.
    Synonyms: backtracing, directory climbing, dot dot slash, path traversal

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