Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14849

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14849.

CWE Category CWE-22

Published Date Sep 28, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

90.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14849: Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules.

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101056 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2017-path-validation/ https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/913131152868876288 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101056 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2017-path-validation/ https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/913131152868876288

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns