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Medium severityGHSA Advisory· Published Aug 31, 2020· Updated Sep 23, 2021

Directory Traversal in nhouston

CVE-2014-8883

Description

All versions of the static file server module nhouston are vulnerable to directory traversal. An attacker can provide input such as ../ to read files outside of the served directory.

Recommendation

It is recommended that a different module be used, as we have been unable to reacher the maintainer of this module. We will continue to reach out to them, and if an update becomes available that fixes the issue, we will update this advisory accordingly.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
nhoustonnpm
>= 0.0.0

Affected products

2

Patches

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