CVE-2017-14849

EPSS 54.4%

Vexday Risk Score

30Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 54.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

28 Sep 2017Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2017-path-validation/https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/913131152868876288 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101056