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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-48011

Servor 1.0.0 through 4.0.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to escape the served root by sending URL-encoded dot segments. Attackers can send %2e%2e/ sequences, which decodeURI() decodes before path.join() in serveStaticFile and serveDirectoryListing, to read arbitrary files and list directories outside the root.

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1 Nov 2026, 03:38 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-48011

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Oct 2026, 21:17 UTC

Servor 1.0.0 through 4.0.2 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to escape the served root by sending URL-encoded dot segments. Attackers can send %2e%2e/ sequences, which decodeURI() decodes before path.join() in serveStaticFile and serveDirectoryListing, to read arbitrary files and list directories outside the root.

osv:CVE-2021-48011
Complete source record
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