atc: exec: ignore task input/output paths that reference parent directories #9078
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The behaviour of this was changed back in 7.5.0 by #6597 (2ba0164) and was never properly captured in our release notes. It kinda snuck in with everything else in that PR.
Previously only relative paths were allowed. No tests were added to handle these new cases. In testing this I also found that paths with parent directories were also allowed and would work; You'd get the input mounted above the task's CWD. This seems like a bad thing to encourage so I've locked things down to only allow absolute and relative paths. Allowing parent directories seems like an easy footgun for users to fall onto.
We now have test coverage for:
Release Note
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) will be treated as relative paths and no parent directory traversal will occur.