Node.js 8.5.0 gater than equal and less than 8.6.0 Directory Traversal

Rejah Rehim

Published on

01 Oct 2021

Vulnerability

Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files. The reason is that Node.js 8.5.0 has a logic error when performing the normalize operation on the directory, which leads to the jump to the upper level(such as ../../../foo/../../../../etc/passwd).

Impact:

This logic error causes the normalize function to return an error result, bypassing the check, and causing arbitrary file reading vulnerabilities.

Mitigation / Precaution

In order to patch this vulnerability, we suggest you to upgrade Node js to the latest version.

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