Rendertron discloses absolute paths of files

Description

Installed packages are exposed by node_modules in Rendertron 1.0.0, allowing remote attackers to read absolute paths on the server by examining the “_where” attribute of package.json files.

Recommendation

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

Affected version(s): < 1.1.0
Patched version(s): 1.1.0

References

GHSA-vqmr-957g-r7w3
bugs.chromium.org
CVE-2017-18355
CWE-200
CAPEC-310
OWASP 2021-A1
OWASP 2021-A6

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