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CVE-2017-16109

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

easyquick is a simple web server. easyquick is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. Access is constrained, however, to supported file types. Requesting a file such as /etc/passwd returns a "not supported" error.

Affected products

• HackerOne easyquick node module: through 0.1.1

References

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/easyquick
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/373
• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/easyquick
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/373

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