CVE-2017-16222
Published
CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
5
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT
Description
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.
Vulnerabilities discovered in npm packages [Berkeley PL & Security Research]