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high 7.5

CVE-2017-16097 json

Directory Traversal in tiny-http

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-cch6-5x4h-6qc5 , EUVD-2020-0975

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

tiny-http is a simple http server. tiny-http is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.

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Exploit prediction

1.97% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • nodesecurity.io https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/342 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/tiny-http referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm tiny-http
>=0.0.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • HackerOne tiny-http node module

Classification

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

References

Sources

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