Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Elding Web Server

CVE-2017-16222 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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