https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-urges-software-devs-to-weed-out-path-traversal-vulnerabilities/

​CISA and the FBI urged software companies today to review their products and eliminate path traversal security vulnerabilities before shipping.

Attackers can exploit path traversal vulnerabilities (also known as directory traversal) to create or overwrite critical files used to execute code or bypass security mechanisms like authentication.