Vulnerability CVE-2017-16184
Published: 2018-06-06   Modified: 2018-06-07

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.

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Scott-blanch-weather-app project -> Scott-blanch-weather-app 

 References:
https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/scott-blanch-weather-app
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/453
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