CVE-2017-16222

CVE-2017-16222

Vendor Hackerone
Product elding node module
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published June 7, 2018
Last update September 17, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 7, 2018 CVE published
September 17, 2024 Record updated