CVE-2015-5688
Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/app/index.js in Geddy before 13.0.8 for Node.js allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 9.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in lib/app/index.js in Geddy before 13.0.8 for Node.js allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..%2f (dot dot encoded slash) in the PATH_INFO to the default URI.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Nuclei template for it.
Show the exploits1
Nuclei templates1 template
- Geddy <13.0.8 - Local File Inclusion (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2015/CVE-2015-5688.yamlSeverity medium
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 39 days later
· 39 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.4% · top 4.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
5
- https://github.com/geddy/geddy/issues/697 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/geddy/geddy/releases/tag/v13.0.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/geddy/geddy/pull/699 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/geddy-directory-traversal (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/geddy/geddy/commit/2de63b68b3aa6c08848f261ace550a37959ef231 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0152 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-333x-9vgq-v2j4 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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