High

Path Traversal in public

  • Disclosed: 18.07.2018
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Versions of public before 0.1.3 are vulnerable to path traversal. This is due to lack of file path sanitization which could lead to any file the parent process has access to on the server to be read by malicious user.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.1.3 or later.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package public < 0.1.3 0.1.3

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Platform
npm
Package
public
Disclosed
18.07.2018
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-rwv8-jvff-jq28 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: public

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

Total entries
5
First → latest
07.2018 09.2020
Without a fix
1
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 3
  • Low 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2018: 2
  2. 2019: 2
  3. 2020: 1
  4. 2021: 0
  5. 2022: 0
  6. 2023: 0
  7. 2024: 0
  8. 2025: 0
  9. 2026: 0
  1. Medium ghsa-4vvp-x9h2-x2vf >= 0.0.0 no fix
  2. Low ghsa-7jfh-2xc9-ccv7 < 0.1.4, = 0.1.5 0.1.4
  3. Medium · 6.1 CVE-2018-16480 < 0.1.4 0.1.4
  4. Medium · 6.1 CVE-2018-3747 < 0.1.4 0.1.4
  5. Path Traversal in public this entry
    High · 7.5 CVE-2018-3731 < 0.1.3 0.1.3

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