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high 7.5

CVE-2014-6394 json

Directory Traversal in send

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-xwg4-93c6-3h42 , EUVD-2017-0335

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

visionmedia send before 0.8.4 for Node.js uses a partial comparison for verifying whether a directory is within the document root, which allows remote attackers to access restricted directories, as demonstrated using "public-restricted" under a "public" directory.

Patch / fix

  • npm send 0.8.4
  • node-send Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.9.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6394

  • node-send Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.9.4-1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6394

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-6394 updated cvss 2.6

nodejs-send: directory traversal vulnerability

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 nodejs010-nodejs-send
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm send
<0.8.4
0.8.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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