Jaroslav Lobačevski discovered that ESAPI incorrectly validated directory paths during path verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass directory validation checks, leading to control-flow bypass. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-23457 ) Kevin W. Wall and Sebastian Passaro discovered that ESAPI did not properly sanitize javascript URLs because of an incorrect regular expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-24891 ) Longlong Gong discovered that ESAPI did not properly neutralize special elements during SQL injection defense. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL...
Jaroslav Lobačevski discovered that ESAPI incorrectly validated directory paths during path verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass directory validation checks, leading to control-flow bypass. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-23457 )
Kevin W. Wall and Sebastian Passaro discovered that ESAPI did not properly sanitize javascript URLs because of an incorrect regular expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-24891 )
Longlong Gong discovered that ESAPI did not properly neutralize special elements during SQL injection defense. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL...
Jaroslav Lobačevski discovered that ESAPI incorrectly validated directory paths during path verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass directory validation checks, leading to control-flow bypass. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-23457 ) Kevin W. Wall and Sebastian Passaro discovered that ESAPI did not properly sanitize javascript URLs because of an incorrect regular expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-24891 ) Longlong Gong discovered that ESAPI did not properly neutralize special elements during SQL injection defense. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection. ( CVE-2025-5878 )
Jaroslav Lobačevski discovered that ESAPI incorrectly validated directory paths during path verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass directory validation checks, leading to control-flow bypass. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-23457 )
Kevin W. Wall and Sebastian Passaro discovered that ESAPI did not properly sanitize javascript URLs because of an incorrect regular expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. ( CVE-2022-24891 )
Longlong Gong discovered that ESAPI did not properly neutralize special elements during SQL injection defense. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform SQL injection. ( CVE-2025-5878 )
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