MEDIUM6.1

GHSA-649c-x44h-4q7v

Tnantoka/public XSS Vulnerability

Quick fix

GHSA-649c-x44h-4q7v — public: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install public@0.1.4

Details

A XSS vulnerability was found in module public <0.1.4 that allows malicious Javascript code to run in the browser, due to the absence of sanitization of the file/folder names before rendering.

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Affected packages

npm/public

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.1.4

Fixnpm install public@0.1.4

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16480[ADVISORY]
https://hackerone.com/reports/329950[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-649c-x44h-4q7v[ADVISORY]
https://www.npmjs.com/package/public[WEB]