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CVE-2017-16196
quickserver is a simple static file server. quickserver is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
quickserver is a simple static file server. quickserver is vulnerable to a directory traversal issue, giving an attacker access to the filesystem by placing "../" in the url.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
HackerOne · quickserver node module
- affected All versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmquickserverGHSA-78h7-fgq9-625x (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/433 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/JacksonGL/NPM-Vuln-PoC/blob/master/directory-traversal/quickserver (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2018-0243 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-78h7-fgq9-625x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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