traversal
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- noun
- /trəˈvɜːrsl/
- Specialized
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traversal
- The security audit revealed a serious traversal vulnerability, allowing unauthorized access to sensitive files.
Examples
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It allows skipping the traversal of a particular directory or creating a corresponding directory at a target location for copying operations.
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File system traversal and group operations
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The method gets called when the traversal of the entire directory has been completed.
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On the other hand, the new file traversal operation can be a little sluggish on first access in certain runtime implementations.
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One important example of such functionality is working with links and symbolic links, which can now be created and/or processed in any file system traversal operation. It works only for file systems that support them; in other cases, an **29;5007;TOOLONG will be thrown.
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Whilst you could mimic the Visitor pattern using a filter with a regular file-based traversal operation, it is much harder to provide a simple and memory-efficient algorithm for a multi-level traversal.
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Whilst you could mimic the Visitor pattern using a filter with a regular file-based traversal operation, it is much harder to provide a simple and memory-efficient algorithm for a multi-level traversal.
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To prevent traversal attacks, the developers implemented strict validation for all file-path inputs.
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An effective strategy against traversal issues is to restrict user permissions on sensitive directories.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The security sense of traversal keeps the same basic idea from trans- 'across' and vers- 'turn' — going across a boundary. So a directory traversal is when someone 'goes across' into files or folders they should not be able to open.