GHSA-wqr3-24xm-fxhqHighCVSS 7.5
Directory Traversal in wffserve
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Affected versions of wffserve resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system.
Example request:
GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host:foo
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.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/wffserve:>= 0.0.0
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/wffserve
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/407
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/city-weather-abe
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16168
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqr3-24xm-fxhq