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CVE-2017-16164

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% 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

desafio is a simple web server. desafio is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url, but is limited to accessing only .html files.

Affected products

• HackerOne desafio node module: 1.0.0, 1.1.0

References

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/desafio
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/397
• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/desafio
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/397

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