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Directory Traversal in looppake

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 23, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 5, 2023

Package

npm looppake (npm)

Affected versions

<= 3.0.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Affected versions of looppake 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.

Example request:

GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd 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 Jul 23, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Sep 5, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

0.435%
(75th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16169

GHSA ID

GHSA-4vfj-c2xf-8r48

Source code

No known source code
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