From dfb91396eb9ab5abd57dcf841bb5eceb04e85d2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "seer-by-sentry[bot]"
 <157164994+seer-by-sentry[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2026 10:12:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Handle empty input path in Win32 path normalization to
 prevent invalid API calls

---
 .../Source/Win32Device/Common/Win32LocalFileSystem.cpp      | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Core/GameEngineDevice/Source/Win32Device/Common/Win32LocalFileSystem.cpp b/Core/GameEngineDevice/Source/Win32Device/Common/Win32LocalFileSystem.cpp
index 84236de436b..24b808fc092 100644
--- a/Core/GameEngineDevice/Source/Win32Device/Common/Win32LocalFileSystem.cpp
+++ b/Core/GameEngineDevice/Source/Win32Device/Common/Win32LocalFileSystem.cpp
@@ -214,6 +214,12 @@ Bool Win32LocalFileSystem::createDirectory(AsciiString directory)
 
 AsciiString Win32LocalFileSystem::normalizePath(const AsciiString& filePath) const
 {
+	// Check if the input path is empty to avoid passing invalid parameters to GetFullPathNameA
+	if (filePath.isEmpty())
+	{
+		return AsciiString::TheEmptyString;
+	}
+
 	DWORD retval = GetFullPathNameA(filePath.str(), 0, NULL, NULL);
 	if (retval == 0)
 	{