GMS-2017-316: Directory Traversal

October 10, 2017

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

References

github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding

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