Directory Traversal in datachannel-client

Description

Affected versions of datachannel-client 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:

• <= 1.0.2

References

• GHSA-jpg7-6c9f-7q54
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16121
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

datachannel-client