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CVE-2017-16222

• 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

elding is a simple web server. elding is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, allowing an attacker to access the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. The files accessible, however, are limited to files with a file extension. Sending a GET request to /../../../etc/passwd, for example, will return a 404 on etc/passwd/index.js.

Affected products

• HackerOne elding node module: 1.0.0

References

• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415
• https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/elding
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/415

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