PT-2014-7207 · Visionmedia · Send

Ilya Kantor · Published 2014-10-08 · Updated 2018-10-09 · CVE-2014-6394

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions visionmedia send versions prior to 0.8.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to access restricted directories due to a partial comparison used for verifying whether a directory is within the document root. This can be demonstrated by accessing a "public-restricted" directory under a "public" directory.

Recommendations Update to version 0.8.4 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to directories that could be accessed through the vulnerable comparison.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6394

GHSA-PGV6-JRVV-75JP

GHSA-XWG4-93C6-3H42

Affected Products

Send

References · 28

• 🔥 https://github.com/visionmedia/send/commit/9c6ca9b2c0b880afd3ff91ce0d211213c5fa5f9a · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6394 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/139938.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6394 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/140020.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6394 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6394 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6394 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6394 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-September/139415.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pgv6-jrvv-75jp · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-6394 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xwg4-93c6-3h42 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/visionmedia/send/pull/59 · Note