{"id":"GHSA-whcm-29f4-j4mx","summary":"Directory Traversal in zwserver","details":"Affected versions of `zwserver` 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-2017-16149"],"modified":"2023-11-08T03:59:07.773326Z","published":"2020-09-01T16:56:50Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2020-08-31T18:20:46Z","nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-22"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16149"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/zwserver"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/372"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"zwserver","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/zwserver"},"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-whcm-29f4-j4mx/GHSA-whcm-29f4-j4mx.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}