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Advisory details: gitlab / npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-21192
Advisory ID gitlab/npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-21192
Aliases CVE-2022-21192
GHSA-5qq4-m6c3-xxmf
Summary Directory Traversal vulnerability in serve-lite All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to missing input sanitization or other checks and protections employed to the req.url passed as-is to path.join().
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-21192.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://gist.github.com/lirantal/9ccdfda0edcb95e36d07a04b0b6c2db0
https://github.com/beenotung/serve-lite
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SERVELITE-3149916
CVE-2022-21192 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-21192
GHSA-5qq4-m6c3-xxmf https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5qq4-m6c3-xxmf
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-21192.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

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physical

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none

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unchanged

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-01T14:54:26Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/21xxx/CVE-2022-21192.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-21192

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]