High

Directory Traversal in myserver.alexcthomas18

  • Disclosed: 23.07.2018
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Affected versions of myserver.alexcthomas18 resolve relative file paths, resulting in a directory traversal vulnerability. A malicious actor can use this vulnerability to access files outside of the intended directory root, which may result in the disclosure of private files on the vulnerable system.

Example request:

http
GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host:foo

Recommendation

No patch is available for this vulnerability.

It is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package myserver.alexcthomas18 <= 0.0.1 no fix

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Platform
npm
Package
myserver.alexcthomas18
Disclosed
23.07.2018
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-rgq8-25qc-h54q - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: myserver.alexcthomas18

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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