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Cross-Site Scripting in connect

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 26, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 30, 2023

Package

npm connect (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.14.0

Patched versions

2.14.0

Description

connect node module before 2.14.0 suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to a lack of validation of file in directory.js middleware.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 7, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 26, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated May 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-3717

GHSA ID

GHSA-rch9-xh7r-mqgw

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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