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Advisory details: gitlab / npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-25847
Advisory ID gitlab/npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-25847
Aliases CVE-2022-25847
GHSA-j8x7-qcw4-xx85
Summary Cross-site Scripting (XSS) in serve-lite All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) because when it detects a request to a directory, it renders a file listing of all of its contents with links that include the actual file names without any sanitization or output encoding.
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-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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-2022-25847.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://gist.github.com/lirantal/52debd25284726fcc2eaed9c7512975c
https://github.com/beenotung/serve-lite
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SERVELITE-3149915
CVE-2022-25847 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25847
GHSA-j8x7-qcw4-xx85 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j8x7-qcw4-xx85
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:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/npm/serve-lite/CVE-2022-25847.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

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none

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-04-01T14:55:01Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2022/25xxx/CVE-2022-25847.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2022-25847

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'poc'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]