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high 7.5

CVE-2019-5415 json

Path Traversal in serve

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-v588-qcp3-jv46 , EUVD-2019-0391

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A bug in handling the ignore files and directories feature in serve 6.5.3 allows an attacker to read a file or list the directory that the victim has not allowed access to.

Patch / fix

  • npm serve 7.0.0

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Exploit prediction

1.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • hackerone.com https://hackerone.com/reports/330724 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/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 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm serve
<7.0.0
7.0.0

Affected products

  • n/a serve

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-548 Exposure of Information Through Directory Listing
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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