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CVE-2017-16184
- 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
scott-blanch-weather-app is a sample Node.js app using Express 4. scott-blanch-weather-app is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/scott-blanch-weather-app
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/453
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/scott-blanch-weather-app
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/453
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