CVE-2017-16029: Path Traversal

June 4, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

hostr allows an attacker to read files outside the current directory by sending ../ in the url path for GET requests.

References

github.com/henrytseng/hostr/issues/8
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16029

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