handbook/tools/3.Web-Hacking/4.Injection/Directory-Traversal/Notes/3.How-To-Prevent-Directory-Traversal-Attacks.md

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## How To Prevent Directory Traversal Attacks
Avoid passing user-supplied input to filesystem APIs
- If this isn't possible, do the following:
§ Application should validate user input before processing it by being compared to an allow list
§ Append input to base directory and use platform filesystem API to canonicalize the path
- Sample code that does this:`
```
File file = new File(BASE_DIRECTORY,
userInput);
if
(file.getCanonicalPath().startsWith(BASE_DIRE
CTORY)) {
// process file
}
```