CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16222
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.
Affected configurations
• elding project elding 1.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415 Third Party Advisory