CVE-2017-16178

Description

`intsol-package` is a file server. `intsol-package` is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. **Example Request:** ```http GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1 host:localhost ``` and the server's Response ```http HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:59:18 GMT Connection: keep-alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked {contents of /etc/passwd} ``` ## Recommendation No patch is available for this vulnerability. It is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.

How to fix CVE-2017-16178

No fixed version has been published yet. Mitigate by removing the affected package or applying upstream guidance from the references below.

• —no fix listed

Is CVE-2017-16178 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 0.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, <= 1.0.0

CVSS scores

References (4)

• ADVISORYgithub.com/advisories/GHSA-23wc-v4mf-x7v4
• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16178
• WEBgithub.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/intsol-package
• WEBwww.npmjs.com/advisories/461