CVE-2017-14849

Summary

CVECVE-2017-14849
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-09-28 01:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionNode.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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nodejs Node.js 8.5.0 All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js 8.5.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Node.js on Twitter: "Important security update in #nodejs 8. Please update now. This does not affect the Node.js 4 or 6 LTS release lines https://t.co/kO8wcgPGgl" CONFIRM twitter.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Path validation vulnerability, September 2017 | Node.js CONFIRM nodejs.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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