CVE-2017-16222

MEDIUM

elding - Path Traversal via URL Manipulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0170
EPSS Percentile 74.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-22
Status published
Products (2)
elding_project/elding 1.0.0
npm/elding 0npm
Published Jun 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026