A deployment automation tool used Python's os.path.join() to sandbox script execution within a designated build directory. Because os.path.join() discards all previous path components when given an absolute path, an attacker could inject an absolute path via the web dashboard to bypass the sandbox entirely and execute arbitrary
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ποΈ The Target: An Enterprise Deployment Engineπ The Vulnerability: The os.path.join TrapβοΈ The Exploit: Weaponizing the Logic FlawGet Hacker MD βs stories in your inboxThe Impact: Why This is Criticalπ‘οΈ Remediation: How to Fix Itπ― ConclusionSort: