isaacs/st · Security
Directory Traversal in st
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-69rr-wvh9-6c4q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2014-3744
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
Versions of st prior to 0.2.5 are affected by a directory traversal vulnerability. Vulnerable versions fail to properly handle URL encoded dots, which caused %2e to be interpreted as . by the filesystem, resulting the potential for an attacker to read sensitive files on the server.
Recommendation
Update to version 0.2.5 or later.
CWEs
- CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
References
- https://github.com/isaacs/st#security-status ↗
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/36 ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3744 ↗
- https://github.com/isaacs/st ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/13/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/15/2 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67389 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-69rr-wvh9-6c4q ↗