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Information Exposure on Case Insensitive File Systems in serve

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 18, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm serve (npm)

Affected versions

< 7.0.0

Patched versions

7.0.0

Description

Versions of serve before 7.0.0 are vulnerable to information exposure, bypassing the ignore security control, but only on case insensitive file systems.

Recommendation

Update to version 7.0.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 18, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-3809

GHSA ID

GHSA-686g-3xr3-x4x6

Source code

No known source code
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