Cross-site Scripting (XSS) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package node-serve-index  (opens in a new tab)


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EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-NODESERVEINDEX-668115
  • published23 Jan 2017
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2015-8856  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-serve-index package and not the node-serve-index package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the serve-index package before 1.6.3 for Node.js allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted file or directory name.