CVE-2018-3731
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
public node module suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to lack of validation of filePath, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.
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Advisory Details
Versions of `public` before 0.1.3 are vulnerable to path traversal. This is due to lack of file path sanitization which could lead to any file the parent process has access to on the server to be read by malicious user.
## Recommendation
Update to version 0.1.3 or later.
Affected Packages
npm
public
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0
<0.1.3
CVSS Scoring
CVSS Score
7.5
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/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 18, 2018, Modified: January 31, 2023
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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-16T17:23:52.400Z
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