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Directory Traversal Affecting geddy package, versions <13.0.8

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 1.35% (86th percentile)
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5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID npm:geddy:20150727
  • published 27 Jul 2015
  • disclosed 27 Jul 2015
  • credit Vikram Chaitanya
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Introduced: 27 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-5688 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-22 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Update to version >= 13.0.8

Overview

Geddy static file serving allows directory traversal with a URI encoded path.

Source: Node Security Project

Details

Example:

http://localhost:4000/..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2f..%2fetc/passwd


geddy is serving the output as it doesn't match the routes and it's a static file