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CVE-2017-16222
elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by…
Medium5.3EPSS 1.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- hackerone
Description
elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
HackerOne · elding node module
- affected All versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (2)
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rp28-29ch-gh92 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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