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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/30598?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-eq2j-gan7-d3b1",
    "summary": "Path Traversal\nstattic inproper path validation leads to path traversal and allows to read arbitrary files with any extension(s)",
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            "alias": "CVE-2018-3734"
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