Directory Traversal Affecting geddy package, versions <13.0.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
9.39% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:geddy:20150727
  • published27 Jul 2015
  • disclosed27 Jul 2015
  • creditVikram Chaitanya

Introduced: 27 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-5688  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Update to version >= 13.0.8

Overview

Geddy static file serving allows directory traversal with a URI encoded path.

Source: Node Security Project

Details

Example:

http://localhost:4000/..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fetc/passwd

geddy is serving the output as it doesn't match the routes and it's a static file

CVSS Base Scores

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