Absolute path traversal vulnerability in ShareLaTeX 0.1.3 and earlier, when the paranoid openin_any setting is omitted, allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a \include command.
The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/302668 | third party advisory us government resource |