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Directory Traversal Affecting geddy Open this link in a new tab package, versions <13.0.8

0.0
medium

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

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  • snyk-id

    npm:geddy:20150727

  • published

    27 Jul 2015

  • disclosed

    27 Jul 2015

  • credit

    Vikram Chaitanya

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Introduced: 27 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-5688 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-22 Open this link 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