CVE-2017-16222

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    CVE-2017-16222

    Published: 7 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415, https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High