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CWE-38

Path Traversal: 'absolutepathnamehere'

The product accepts input in the form of a backslash absolute path ('absolutepathnamehere') without appropriate validation, which can allow an attacker to traverse the file system to unintended locations or access arbitrary files.

Official CWE-38 definition at MITRE

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