Vigil@nce - Node.js knightjs: directory traversal
February 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Nodejs Modules not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 10/12/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of Node.js knightjs, in order
to read a file outside the service root path.
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