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medium 5.3

CVE-2017-16179 json

Directory Traversal in dasafio

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-8xj3-7258-w4q2 , EUVD-2020-0918

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

dasafio is a web server. dasafio is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url. File access is restricted to only .html files.

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Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/dasafio referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm dasafio
>=0.0.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • HackerOne dasafio node module

Classification

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

References

Sources

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