Venice is a Clojure inspired sandboxed Lisp dialect with excellent Java interoperability. A partial path traversal issue exists within the functions `load-file` and `load-resource`. These functions can be limited to load files from a list of load paths. Assuming Venice has been configured with the load paths: `[ "\/Users\/foo\/resources" ]` When passing **relative** paths to these two vulnerable functions everything is fine: `(load-resource "test.png")` => loads the file "\/Users\/foo\/resources\/test.png" `(load-resource "..\/resources-alt\/test.png")` => rejected, outside the load path When passing **absolute** paths to these two vulnerable functions Venice may return files outside the configured load paths: `(load-resource "\/Users\/foo\/resources\/test.png")` => loads the file "\/Users\/foo\/resources\/test.png" `(load-resource "\/Users\/foo\/resources-alt\/test.png")` => loads the file "\/Users\/foo\/resources-alt\/test.png" !!! The latter call suffers from the _Partial Path Traversal_ vulnerability. This issue’s scope is limited to absolute paths whose name prefix matches a load path. E.g. for a load-path `"\/Users\/foo\/resources"`, the actor can cause loading a resource also from `"\/Users\/foo\/resources-alt"`, but not from `"\/Users\/foo\/images"`. Versions of Venice before and including v1.10.17 are affected by this issue. Upgrade to Venice >= 1.10.18, if you are on a version < 1.10.18. There are currently no known workarounds. <\/p>\n