CVE-2018-3712
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
serve node module before 6.4.9 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to not handling %2e (.) and %2f (/) and allowing them in paths, which allows a malicious user to view the contents of any directory with known path.
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Advisory Details
Affected versions of `serve` do not properly handle `%2e` (.) and `%2f` (/) characters, and allow the, characters to be used in paths. This can be used to traverse the directory tree and list content of any directory the user running the process has access to.
Mitigating factors:
This vulnerability only allows listing of directory contents and does not allow reading of arbitrary files.
## Recommendation
Update to version 6.4.9 later.
Affected Packages
npm
serve
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0
<6.4.9
CVSS Scoring
CVSS Score
5.0
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: July 27, 2018, Modified: April 21, 2023
Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T00:05:56.311Z
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