CVE-2017-16222

elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.3 Medium

Status

Modified - support@hackerone.com

Published

2018-06-07

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Elding (Elding Project)
• Elding Node Module (Hackerone)

References

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415