Directory Traversal in hostr

Description

Affected versions of hostr are vulnerable to directory traversal which allows attackers to read files outside the current directory by sending ../ in the url path for GET requests.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): <= 2.3.5
• Patched version(s): 2.3.6

References

• GHSA-xqqr-p362-6rmc
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16029
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• jqueryFileTree vulnerable to Directory Traversal - CVE-2017-1000170
• Directory Traversal in fbr-client - CVE-2017-16217
• Directory Traversal in node-simple-router - CVE-2017-16083
• Directory Traversal in rtcmulticonnection-client - CVE-2017-16125

Tags:

npm

hostr