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CVE-2017-16153

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: none known
• Published: 2018-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

gaoxuyan is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.

Affected products

• HackerOne gaoxuyan node module: all versions

References

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/gaoxuyan
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/378
• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/tree/master/directory-traversal/gaoxuyan
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/378

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