{"id":"GHSA-h372-w3xp-2jg3","summary":"Directory Traversal in section2.madisonjbrooks12","details":"Affected versions of `section2.madisonjbrooks12` resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system.\n\n**Example request:**\n```http\nGET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1\nhost:foo\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nNo patch is available for this vulnerability.\n\nIt 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.","aliases":["CVE-2017-16172"],"modified":"2023-11-08T03:59:09.189829Z","published":"2020-09-01T18:54:34Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2020-08-31T18:24:17Z","nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-22"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16172"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/section2.madisonjbrooks12"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/468"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"section2.madisonjbrooks12","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/section2.madisonjbrooks12"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.0.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2020/09/GHSA-h372-w3xp-2jg3/GHSA-h372-w3xp-2jg3.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}