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ubuntu-cve-2021-23797

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2021-12-17 20:15

Modified

2026-05-20 14:53

Summary

Details

All versions of package http-server-node are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via use of --path-as-is.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

9.8 (Critical)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23797	REPORT
	https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPSERVERN…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23797	REPORT

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CVE-2021-23797 (GCVE-0-2021-23797)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-17 20:05 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:30

Title

Directory Traversal

Summary

All versions of package http-server-node are vulnerable to Directory Traversal via use of --path-as-is.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

Directory Traversal

Assigner

snyk

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPSERVERNODE-1727656	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	http-server-node	Affected: 0 , < unspecified (custom)

Date Public

2021-12-17 00:00

Credits

Yeting Li

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ubuntu-cve-2021-23797

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2021-23797 (GCVE-0-2021-23797)

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