Directory Traversal in startserver

Description

All versions of package startserver are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to missing sanitization.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.4.1

References

• GHSA-hqv3-qq72-78cv
• snyk.io
• CVE-2021-23430
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Directory Traversal in isomorphic-git - CVE-2021-30483
• Directory Traversal in rtcmulticonnection-client - CVE-2017-16125
• Directory Traversal in node-simple-router - CVE-2017-16083
• Budibase: Path traversal in plugin file upload enables arbitrary directory deletion and file write - CVE-2026-35214

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Tags:

npm

startserver