PT-2018-16155 · Npm+2 · Public+2

Bl4De + 1 · Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2023-01-30 · CVE-2018-3731

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions public versions prior to 0.1.3

Description The issue arises from a lack of validation of the filePath, allowing a malicious user to read the content of any file with a known path due to a Path Traversal vulnerability. This is caused by insufficient file path sanitization, which could lead to any file the parent process has access to on the server being read by a malicious user.

Recommendations Update to version 0.1.3 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to sensitive files until the issue is resolved.

Exploit

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-3731

GHSA-RWV8-JVFF-JQ28

Affected Products

Public

Public Node Module

Public.Js

References · 7

• 🔥 https://hackerone.com/reports/312918 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3731 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-rwv8-jvff-jq28 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-3731 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/tnantoka/public/commit/eae8ad8017b260f8667ded5e12801bd72b877af2 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/571 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rwv8-jvff-jq28 · Note