CVE-2017-16222 Information

Description

elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing ../\ in the url. The files accessible however are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd for example will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415 elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing ../
in the url. The files accessible however are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd for example will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.3