Path Traversal Affecting simple-spellchecker package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-SIMPLESPELLCHECKER-8136953
  • published1 Oct 2024
  • disclosed30 Sept 2024
  • creditGuilherme Gonçalves

Introduced: 30 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-46503  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for simple-spellchecker.

Overview

simple-spellchecker is an A simple spellchecker compatible with Electron

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Path Traversal through the _readFileSync function. An attacker can read an arbitrary file which can be converted to original format.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1