Arbitrary File Write

Affecting connect-parse-php package, ALL versions

Overview

connect-parse-php is a php parsing middleware for grunt-contrib-connect.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal, which may allow access to sensitive files and data on the server. For example, requesting the following url /..%2f..%2fetc/passwd would result in /etc/passwd leak.

Thanks to Liang Gong for disclosing this vulnerability!

Remediation

There is no fix version for connect-parse-php.

References

• PoC by Liang Gong