CVE-2022-21192: Directory Traversal vulnerability in serve-lite

January 26, 2023 (updated April 1, 2025)

All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to missing input sanitization or other checks and protections employed to the req.url passed as-is to path.join().

References

gist.github.com/lirantal/9ccdfda0edcb95e36d07a04b0b6c2db0
github.com/advisories/GHSA-5qq4-m6c3-xxmf
github.com/beenotung/serve-lite
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21192
security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SERVELITE-3149916

Code Behaviors & Features

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