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Directory Traversal in elding

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 6, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 8, 2023

Package

npm elding (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Affected versions of elding 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.

This vulnerability only affects files that have file extensions - i.e. /etc/passwd will be treated as a directory, and a read attempt on /etc/passwd/index.js will be made and subsequently fail.

Example request:

GET /../../../../../../../../../../some_app_dir/secrets.json 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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 6, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Sep 8, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.095%
(41st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16222

GHSA ID

GHSA-rp28-29ch-gh92

Source code

No known source code
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