Cross-Site Scripting in connect

Description

connect node module before 2.14.0 suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to a lack of validation of file in directory.js middleware.

Recommendation

Update the connect package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.14.0
• Patched version(s): 2.14.0

References

• GHSA-rch9-xh7r-mqgw
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2018-3717
• CWE-79
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Stored Cross-Site Scripting in simplehttpserver - CVE-2018-3716
• Bootstrap Cross-site Scripting vulnerability (GHSA-pj7m-g53m-7638) - CVE-2018-14041
• Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Stored in crud-file-server - CVE-2018-3726
• Json2html vulnerable to cross-site scripting - CVE-2018-25053

Tags:

npm

connect