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Directory Traversal in serve

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 25, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm serve (npm)

Affected versions

< 7.1.3

Patched versions

7.1.3

Description

Versions of serve before 7.1.3 are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. File paths are not sanitized leading to unauthorized access of system files.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 7.1.3 or later

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 25, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-5417

GHSA ID

GHSA-xg75-3277-gvvj

Source code

No known source code
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