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

• Prototype Pollution in lodash - CVE-2018-3721
• Cross-site Scripting in quill - CVE-2021-3163
• Prototype Pollution in async - CVE-2021-43138
• Joplin Remote Code Execution - CVE-2022-40277

Tags:

npm

hostr