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Attackers can exploit this to write slide_*.png and slides.json files to any writable directory and subsequently delete matching files at the specified location through repeat extraction."},{"lang":"es","value":"Summarize anterior a 0.15.1 contiene una vulnerabilidad de salto de ruta en el endpoint del demonio /v1/summarize que permite a los llamadores autenticados escribir archivos en directorios arbitrarios al proporcionar una ruta absoluta o una secuencia de salto de directorio en el parámetro de solicitud slidesDir. 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