CVE-2021-29425

In Apache Commons IO before 2.7, When invoking the method FileNameUtils.normalize with an improper input string, like "//../foo", or "\..\foo", the result would be the same value, thus possibly providing access to files in the parent directory, but not further above (thus "limited" path traversal), if the calling code would use the result to construct a path value.

While the apache-commons-io package included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Maven App Stream contains the vulnerable code, it is not used in any way by Maven or other packages in this module. This package is not an API component of Maven, thus the affected code can not be reached in any supported scenario.

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