Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-6394

Title: Apple Xcode Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-6394.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Oct 08, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.84%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-6394: visionmedia send before 0.8.4 for Node.js uses a partial comparison for verifying whether a directory is within the document root, which allows remote attackers to access restricted directories, as demonstrated using "public-restricted" under a "public" directory.

Impacted Vendors

apple 1

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139938.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140020.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139415.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70100 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146063 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96727 https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a https://github.com/visionmedia/send/pull/59 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/send-directory-traversal https://support.apple.com/HT205217 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00002.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139938.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140020.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139415.html http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/30/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70100 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146063 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96727 https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a https://github.com/visionmedia/send/pull/59 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/send-directory-traversal https://support.apple.com/HT205217

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-6394 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 08, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.