CVE-2017-14849 (GCVE-0-2017-14849)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-09-28 00:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:42
Severity ?
Summary
Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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