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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Tags:

npm

rendertron