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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-3733

crud-file-server node module before 0.9.0 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to incorrect validation of url, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:43 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-3733

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 May 2018, 20:29 UTC

crud-file-server node module before 0.9.0 suffers from a Path Traversal vulnerability due to incorrect validation of url, which allows a malicious user to read content of any file with known path.

osv:CVE-2018-3733
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "document_id": 382563,
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