Directory Traversal in commentapp.stetsonwood

Description

Affected versions of commentapp.stetsonwood 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:

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.0.1

References

• GHSA-j5mg-fpq8-vvxv
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16143
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Directory Traversal in xtalk - CVE-2017-16091
• Directory Traversal in datachannel-client - CVE-2017-16121
• Directory Traversal in cyber-js - CVE-2017-16093
• Directory Traversal in rtcmulticonnection-client - CVE-2017-16125

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Tags:

npm

commentapp.stetsonwood