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CVE-2017-16110

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description

weather.swlyons is a simple web server for weather updates. weather.swlyons is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.

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✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Directory Traversal in weather.swlyons

GHSA-2r4h-2ghh-5hpx

Advisory Details

Affected versions of `weather.swlyons` resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system. **Example request:** ```http GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1 host:foo ``` ## 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 weather.swlyons
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

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 1, 2020, Modified: September 11, 2023

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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T02:27:30.487Z
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