static-server Path Traversal vulnerability

Description

All versions of the package static-server are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to improper input sanitization passed via the validPath function of server.js.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 2.2.1

References

• GHSA-v834-rhv4-65m3
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2023-26152
• CWE-22
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• parse is vulnerable to prototype pollution - CVE-2025-57324
• Denial of service in http-proxy-middleware - CVE-2024-21536
• node-browser downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10618
• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579

Tags:

npm

static-server