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Security checkJanuary 09, 2023

Path Traversal in socket.io-file

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High severitynpmsocket.io-file

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Description

All versions of socket.io-file are vulnerable to Path Traversal. The package fails to sanitize user input and uses it to generate the file upload paths. The socket.io-file::createFile message contains a name option that is passed directly to path.join().

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 2.0.31

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