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CVE-2021-27516 (GCVE-0-2021-27516)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-21 23:29 – Updated: 2024-08-03 21:26
VLAI
Summary
URI.js (aka urijs) before 1.19.6 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.
CWE
  • n/a
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