MEDIUM5.4

GHSA-rch9-xh7r-mqgw

Cross-Site Scripting in connect

Quick fix

GHSA-rch9-xh7r-mqgw — connect: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install connect@2.14.0

Details

connect node module before 2.14.0 suffers from a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to a lack of validation of file in directory.js middleware.

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Affected packages

npm/connect

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.14.0

Fixnpm install connect@2.14.0

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-3717[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/JacksonTian/anywhere/issues/33#issuecomment-366527448[WEB]
https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/commit/6d5dd30075d2bc4ee97afdbbe3d9d98d8d52d74b[WEB]
https://hackerone.com/reports/309394[WEB]
https://hackerone.com/reports/309641[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rch9-xh7r-mqgw[ADVISORY]
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/584[WEB]
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/595[WEB]