CVE-2014-6394

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

visionmedia send before 0.8.4 for Node.js uses a partial comparison for verifying whether a directory is within the document root, which allows remote attackers to access restricted directories, as demonstrated using "public-restricted" under a "public" directory.

Affected products

Apple Xcode: 7.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20, 21
Joyent Node.Js: through 0.8.3; 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139938.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140020.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139415.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62170
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/10
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70100
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146063
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96727
https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a

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